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The single stranded DNA of phage phixx17...

The single stranded DNA of phage `phixx174` has 5400 nucleotides. If average protein contains 200 amino acids, how many different proteins could this phage DNA code?

A

Replicative DNA

B

Master strand

C

Plus strand

D

Negative strand

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