High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals That Ten New Mutations Have Occurred in the Coding

Multiple Choice

High-throughput sequencing reveals that ten new mutations have occurred in the coding regions of genes in an individual bat.If the coding regions of this bat comprise 100 million nucleotides per haploid genome, what is the mutation rate per nucleotide?

A) 5 per billion
B) 10 per billion
C) 50 per billion
D) 5 per million
E) 10 per million