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bookChallenge: Identify Conserved Regions

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Write a Python function that takes a multiple sequence alignment (as a list of equal-length strings) and returns the positions that are fully conserved across all sequences.

  • Check if the alignment is empty, and if so, return an empty list.
  • For each position in the alignment, check if all sequences have the same character at that position.
  • Collect and return the list of positions where all sequences are identical.

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Write a Python function that takes a multiple sequence alignment (as a list of equal-length strings) and returns the positions that are fully conserved across all sequences.

  • Check if the alignment is empty, and if so, return an empty list.
  • For each position in the alignment, check if all sequences have the same character at that position.
  • Collect and return the list of positions where all sequences are identical.

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