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Re:Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Mode... by drekk on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:31PM (#29939996)
my favorite part about your response here is how you didn't answer any of the questions and gave a hand-wavey response about how they're wrong.
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Re:Ctcctcggcgggcacgtag is unique to both SARS-CoV-2 and Mode... by dnautics on Friday January 14, 2022 @03:38PM (#29940083)
alright, do you want a specific answer? My guess is it's somewhere around one in 3^{5-6}-ish, for the singular founder event that establishes and fixes that sequence as the canonical sequence for the furin cleavage site of COVID-19.
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