Phylogenetic trees are built by aligning DNA or protein sequences. Please answre the following questions i) and ii) MICR
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Phylogenetic trees are built by aligning DNA or proteinsequences. Please answre the following questions i) and ii)
MICROBIOLOGY
i) What is represented in phylogenetic trees, and why are theyimportant in microbiology? Please provide one example of howphylogenetic analysis can be applied to microbiologyresearch
ii) In a protein alignment for a microbial enzyme, a researcherobserved that one sequence had several differences in amino-acidsequence in the cataltyic site of the enzyme, when compared to allother sequences in the alignment. The researcher made all effortsto rule out any technical error in the sequencing and alignmentprocess. Please explain how you would interpret how this variationin the amino-acid sequence of an enzymes catalytic site may affectits function?
MICROBIOLOGY
i) What is represented in phylogenetic trees, and why are theyimportant in microbiology? Please provide one example of howphylogenetic analysis can be applied to microbiologyresearch
ii) In a protein alignment for a microbial enzyme, a researcherobserved that one sequence had several differences in amino-acidsequence in the cataltyic site of the enzyme, when compared to allother sequences in the alignment. The researcher made all effortsto rule out any technical error in the sequencing and alignmentprocess. Please explain how you would interpret how this variationin the amino-acid sequence of an enzymes catalytic site may affectits function?