Question

Another difficulty in Bayesian methods is deciding on the length of sequence that was duplicated.

(a) True

(b) False

I have been asked this question in unit test.

My question is from Bayesian Statistics in section Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

Answer 1

The correct choice is (a) True

For explanation I would say: In genomes, the presence of repeats may be revealed by long regions of matched sequence positions dispersed among regions of sequence positions that do not match. However, as the frequency of mismatches is increased, it becomes difficult to determine the extent of the repeated region.