Your lab partner is using BLAST, and his best E value is 3. This means that
A. he’s found 3 proteins in the database that have the same sequence as his protein.
B. the chance that these similarities arose due to chance is one in 10^3.
C. there would be 3 matches that good in a database of this size by chance alone.
D. the match in amino acid sequencs is perfect, except for the amino acids at 3 positions.
Answer:C
Your lab partner is using BLAST, and his best E value is 3. This means that
A. he’s found 3 proteins in the database that have the same sequence as his protein. B. the chance that these similarities arose due to chance is one in 10^3. C. there would be 3 matches that good in a database of this size by chance alone. D. the match in amino acid sequencs is perfect, except for the amino acids at 3 positions.