Under the conditions of an experiment, a particular virus has an expected substitution rate of 1 substitution per 5,000 nucleotides per generation and a genome size of 10,000 nucleotides.If the virus has one generation per hour, we would expect approximately _______ substitutions between 9 am on Monday and 1 pm on Friday of the same week.

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The virus undergoes 1 substitution per 5,000 nucleotides per generation. With a genome size of 10,000 nucleotides, this results in 2 substitutions per generation. From 9 am Monday to 1 pm Friday is 100 hours, equating to 100 generations. Therefore, 100 generations x 2 substitutions per generation = 200 substitutions.

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