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Bacterial Genetics and Genomics, Chapter 7, Discussion topic 2. It doesn’t take much to alter the sequence of a protein. Whilst some single nucleotide changes to the DNA sequence can be tolerated, others cause the gene to encode a different amino acid in the protein. Again, some of these changes to the amino acid sequence canContinue reading “A single amino acid change can have a big impact on the bacteria.”