The sequences below represent a wild-type and a mutant allele of the same
gene. The mutant allele has a single nucleotide insertion (underlined).
Wild-type allele
5'...GGGATCGATGCCCCTTGAGTTTACATATTECTGGAGGCGTTAACCCCGGA... 3'
Mutant allele
5'...GGGATCGATGCGCCCTTGAGTTTACATATTGCTGGAAGGCGTTAACCCCGGA... 3'
3' ... CCCT AGCT ACGCGGGAACT CAAAAT GT AT AACGACCTCCGCAATTGGGCCT... 5'
A. In both cases the top strand is the coding strand. RNA polymerase will travel in what
direction when transcribing? (bubble in answer)
O Left to right
O Right to left