week 13

Considering the statements below about Benzer, 1959 study:

I - A qualitative approach to studying mutations was used rather than a quantitative one.
II - Mutations at a region called "rII" of a virus were used to demonstrate the theory.
III - The author was interested in whether or not two individuals had mutations that overlap.
IV - According to the definition of overlapping mutations, it is possible to recover the original genome if and only if the mutants have overlapping mutations.
V- The recombination matrix is devised by assigning 1 for the matrix element a[i,j] if they have an overlapping mutation and 0 otherwise,

How many statements are true?

a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
e) None of the above.

Original idea by Mario Akita