Chapter 24, Problem 8CONQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

The necessity of putting gaps while aligning two sequences and two kinds of changes resulting in the presence of gaps in multiple sequence alignment of homologous genes.

Introduction:

Alignment is the method of comparing two sequences along the same length. Alignment can reveal the percentage of similarity between the two sequences and thus, the evolutionary relatedness. When alignment is carried out between three or more than three sequences to identify conserved regions as well as the regions of similarity, it is known as multiple sequence alignment.