Posted: July 25th, 2017

You have isolated a fragment of viral DNA that totally encodes at least two proteins, 120 and 80 amino acids long. The DNA fragment is 400 base pairs long

You have isolated a fragment of viral DNA that totally encodes at least
two proteins, 120 and 80 amino acids long. The DNA fragment is 400
base pairs long. (a) Why might you consider this unusual? (b) Propose
two models to account for this, one of which you might be able to rule
out if you sequence the two proteins. (c) You sequence the two
proteins and find no sequence homology. Which proposal does this rule
out? Why?