Question

Use the month of your birthday to select a species from the following list: Dictyostelium discoideum

Use the Entrez Browser (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gquery/)to search the nucleotide database for a protein coding gene.

A) Report the GenBank accession number of the gene you selected

B) Report the first 20 codons of the gene (starting with ATG)

C) Transcribe and translate the first 20 codons of the gene

D) Translate the coding region of the gene shifting the frame +1 and +2 (Do this for the first 10 codons or until you encounter a stop codon.)

Answer 1

Organism: Dictyostelium discoideum

Selected gene = Dictyostelium discoideum cAMP receptor subtype 2 (CAR2) gene
Genebank accession number = S55234.1