The Program BLAST Would Be Best Used for What Purpose

Question

The program BLAST would be best used for what purpose?
A) Determining what restriction sites are present in a fragment of DNA
B) Identifying a promoter sequence
C) Identifying splice donor and acceptor sites
D) Identify related sequences to a given DNA sequence in the Genbank database

Accepted Answer

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is primarily used to search for similar sequences in the Genbank sequence database. It is a powerful tool for identifying related DNA or protein sequences, and is commonly used in genome annotation and sequence analysis. Options A, B, and C are more suited to other computational tools, such as restriction enzyme mapping software or transcription factor prediction algorithms.