I am able to use a technique called a Northern hybridization to determine the relative amount of mRNAs per cell there are in wild type and four deletion strains. Note that each of the mutants contains a deletion of DNA; the area missing in the diagram.

Style Layout More Scale: 500 # mRNA molecules per cell Font Times New Roman Exon 1 | Exon 3 Wild-type- Exon 21 300 Regular 12 pt O Exon 1 Exon 2 Exon 3 Mutant 1- Character Styles None Exon 1) Exon 2 Mutant 2- Exon 3 _ 3,000 Alignment Exon 1 | Exon 2 Exon 3 Mutant 3 - 30 Exon 1. Exon 2 Mutant 4- Exon 3 300 Spacing 1.0 - Single Lines For each of the mutants, what DNA sequence elements may be affected to cause the observed changes in mRNA levels. Observe the base pair scale bar when determining your response. 4 pts Before Paragraph Opto Opto After Paragraph Bullets & Lists None No Bullets Indent: 0 in Bullet 0 in 0 Text 319 words