Why is the FASTA method universally used when conducting protein sequence comparison analyses? It is a faster method of constructing an amino acid sequence from the DNA genetic code. It uses a simple numerical based representation of the amino acids It is a simple text base representation of amino acids using single letters of the English alphabet. It allows the user to perform an protein comparison without the use of computer algorithms.
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