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Questions to Consider

1. What is represented by the red letters? Black letters? Blue letters?                                                                                                                 (Click to make image larger)
2. Which strand of DNA is considered the template strand?  How do you know? 
3. Why are there three rows (reading frames) of amino acid data?
4. Consider the region that is highlighted below.  Is this an intron or exon? 
5. How many exons and introns does the beta-globin gene contain?
6. When you completed this activity, you noticed that the exons were located in different reading frames.  What caused this?
7. What is the alternative splicing hypothesis?

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