Question: You Have Been Examining For Variants Of A Bacterial Pathogen (Clostridium Difficile) And You Think You Have Found One. The Wild Type Bacteria Has A Section Of DNA With The Sequence Below (non-template Strand Shown). This Section Encodes A Small But Important Peptide. The Sequence Of The Variant Is Below The Wild Type. Based On This, Determine Where …

Question: You Have Been Examining For Variants Of A Bacterial Pathogen (Clostridium Difficile) And You Think You Have Found One. The Wild Type Bacteria Has A Section Of DNA With The Sequence Below (non-template Strand Shown). This Section Encodes A Small But Important Peptide. The Sequence Of The Variant Is Below The Wild Type. Based On This, Determine Where …

You have been examining for variants of a bacterialpathogen (Clostridium difficile) and you think you havefound one. The Wild type bacteria has a section of DNA with thesequence below (non-template strand shown). This section encodes asmall but important peptide. The sequence of the variant is belowthe wild type. Based on this, determine where the difference is,what type of mutation it is, and what effect this mutation mighthave on the gene product and the resultant phenotype of the variantpathogen. (NOTE THE START AND STOP CODONS!)

   5′ ATGAAACAGGCCATCTAG 3′   WildType

              ​5’ATGAAATAGGCCATCTAG 3′     Variant