Additional questions for Lab #21

 

 

 

 

1.       If an average protein has a molecular weight of 50,000 and the average amino acid has a molecular weight of 100 how many amino acids are in the average protein?

 

2.       How many codons would the average protein have?  How many base pairs would this be?

 

3.       Given the above, what is the maximum number of genes possible in E. coli?  In the human genome?