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Suppose that a segment of DNA of length 1,000,000 is to be shotgun sequenced with fragme...

Suppose that a segment of DNA of length 1,000,000 is to be shotgun sequenced with fragments of length 1000.

a. How many fragment would be needed so that the chance of an individual site being covered is greater than 0.99?

b. With this choice, how many sites would you expect to be missed?

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