Part A The first step in annotating a gene is identifying the open reading frame

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Part A The first step in annotating a gene is identifying the open reading frame. In bacteria, all genes that code for a protein have a start and stop codon with an open reading frame between them. A bioinformatics program can translate all the possible reading frames (series of 3 codons) in an attempt to find the longest open reading frame. How many possible open reading frames can a bioinformatics program translate from one DNA sequence? Enter your answer numerically (for example: 2). I-VO AZO - * O 2 ? submit My Answers Give Up

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The answer is 6

The 3 possible reading frames can be translated from the DNA and the other 3 reading frames can be found only after finding the reverse complement.

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