Question

In your laboratory notebook, describe how the enzyme would cut in a taster and in a non-taster. How many fragments would be produced in each case? draw or explain how this product would be verified using gel electrophoresis.

Answer 1

For the hom-ozygous taster, both copies of the gene contain the polymorphism, hence, allowing to be cut by the enzyme. Fragments of 177-bp and 44-bp are then produced.

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