Trilateral Project 24.1-Biotechnology 019

The answer to this question is twofold with regard to the general issue and the given example. Whereas generally a definition of a DNA cannot be considered "clear" if only part of it (e.g. 40%) is defined and the rest is completely undefined, the specific example introduces the further limitation that protein X must be encoded by any DNA of the claim. Provided "protein X" is defined by its amino acid sequence, the claim of the example in the Questionnaire, in principle, would be considered to be clear. However, the limit of "at least 40% identity to the DNA sequence in Fig. 1" is too low to ensure that the protein encoded by the degenerated DNA sequences remains the same.