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If a gene is 500 nucleotides long, how many characters could be evaluated in total and...

If a gene is 500 nucleotides long, how many characters could be evaluated in total and what are the different possible character states?

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There will be 500 characters. Each nucleotide at a specific location will be a character on its own.

There will be 4 charcater states for every nucleotide. This is because there are 4 types of nucleotides, A, T, G, C. So, each nucleotide will be a character state in itself.

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