Chapter 6, Problem 35CQ

(a)

Summary Introduction

To calculate: The average number of coat protein subunits that would have to be synthesized to produce a perfect viral coat.

Concept introduction: Translation is a process of producing polypeptides from the mRNA sequence. Mutation that alters the amino acid sequence of a protein by replacing the residues is called substitution. Tomato bushy stunt virus generally affects the vegetable crops.

(b)

Summary Introduction

To calculate: The number that it actually contains if the viral coat was a single polypeptide chain with the same number of residues.

Concept introduction: Translation is a process of producing polypeptides from the mRNA sequence. Mutation that alters the amino acid sequence of a protein by replacing the residues is called substitution. Tomato bushy stunt virus generally affects the vegetable crops.