Question

apply principles of building proteins to health
you are in a laboratory attempting to identify a genetic defect responsible for a disease. you believe you have located the gene that results in a faulty protein—but you arent sure!
how could you be sure you have located a section of dna that encodes for a protein?
x write down the sequence to see what amino acids might be linked together.
allow the dna to be transcribed to rna and see what protein results.
compare the faulty protein to the dna.
retry

Explanation:

DNA is transcribed to RNA during protein - synthesis. By allowing the DNA to be transcribed to RNA and observing the resulting protein, one can confirm if the DNA section encodes for a protein. Just writing down the sequence might not be conclusive as it doesn't show the actual protein - building process. Comparing the faulty protein to the DNA directly doesn't confirm if the DNA section is the one encoding for the protein.

Answer:

Allow the DNA to be transcribed to RNA and see what protein results.