Question: You sequence a linear piece of DNA by first fragmenting many copies of it into smaller, overlappi…

You sequence a linear piece of DNA by first fragmenting many
copies of it into smaller, overlapping pieces, each of which is
sequenced. Six fragments are shown below. Assemble the pieces into
a single contig. How many basepairs long is your contig? (Hint: to
make the assembly easier, make sure you retain a fixed width font
for your DNA fragments, like Courier New. You can use the word
count feature in Microsoft word to count the characters
easily.)

TAACGATCAATTTACTTTTAAAAGAT

TTTGGTAATTCAACAT

CAATGGTAATGATATTACATCAGAGATTCAATCATTAAATAACGATCAA

TTCAACATCATTAATTCAAGTTTAT

AATTCAAGTTTATTTCAATGGTAATGAT

ATGGTAATGATATTACATCAGAGA

90 bp

94 bp

100 bp

105 bp