Compare the DNA Sequence and any DNA base that is different in the cow and human sequences. How many bases are different? Examine the amino acids produced. any amino acids that are different in the two sequences. How many are there What if a mutation occurred in the human insulin gene and the first triplet was changed to C C G? Is this a substitution mutation? Explain how you know.

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Q: Does Phospodiester bonds hold deoxyribose and phosphate components together in the DNA

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Q: Describe the mutation that created the HBs allele: type of mutation, location of mutation on HbA…

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Q: In what ways are they similar? b. In what ways are they different? c. What is the biological…

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Q: Which of the following mutations involve the loss of one or more nucleotides from a gene sequence?

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Q: a) Explain the effect of the guanine:cytosine ratio on melting temperature of DNA. b) The…

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Q: A researcher sequences the genome of a variety of bacterial and eukaryotic cells. She finds that the…

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Q: In 1950 Erwin Chargaff published a scientific paper showing the percentages of the nitrogen bases…

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Q: The relative proportions of cytosine-guanine and adeninethymine bonds in a DNA sample can be…

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Q: What type of mutation (missense, silent, and non-sense) was introduced in your sequence when G was…

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Q: Which THREE of the following characteristics are the same in both DNA and RNA? A) deoxyribose sugar…

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Q: Why do you think all the information in the DNA of all living organisms would be coded by only 4…

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Q: A linear piece of DNA was broken into random, overlapping fragments and each fragment was sequenced.…

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Q: In 1953, Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNADNA by examining data from many different…

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Q: If the amino acid sequences of monkeys and humans in the protein of two organisms are similar, why…

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Q: According to Chargaff’s rules for DNA base composition, if a DNA sample contained 10% guanine, the…

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Q: 1. Written below is a DNA seqeunce: G G C A A C T A T C C C G A T T A G C G C Write down the…

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Q: The A+T: G+C ratios in the DNA of cattle and rats are very similar. Would you expect the tRNAs,…

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Q: 1) Define the silent mutation in DNA?  2) What is the codon usage bias?

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Q: If pET32a(+) is digested simultaneously with BamHI and BclI, 1.How many fragments are created? 2.…

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Q: A linear piece of DNA is cut as follows: cut with Ecorl - get 1kb and 4 kb band Cut with Bamhl - get…

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Q: If 4% of human and chimpanzee DNA differs, how many base pairs differ between the two species?…

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Q: A student has drawn an enlarged portion of a DNA “ladder” model to show two of the nucleotides in…

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Q: People who carry a theoretical genetic disorder (called B-disease) can be identified from a 2kb DNA…

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Q: The image below shows the base cytosine and a methylated form of cytosine that occurs frequently in…

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Q: Which of the following DNA sequence pairs are completely complementary? Group of answer choices…

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Q: What components make up a single nucleotide of DNA? Select all that apply.   A. Ribose sugar   B.…

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Q: If most of the DNA in Bacteria and Archaea is coding DNA and much of the DNA in higher plants and…

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Q: Silent mutations that occur in DNA are quite common in living cells and usually involve no effects…

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Q: Rosalind Franklin's research contribution was essential in   a. determining the nucleotide sequence…

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Q: The following fragment of DNA is from the template strand. First determine the amino acids of the…

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Q: Three human genomic DNA fragments (A, B, and C) are sequenced and revealed the following: fragment A…

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Q: Given what you have learned about the hydrogen bonding shared between nucleic acids in DNA, which…

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Q: You have sequenced the genome of the bacterium Salmonella typhimurium and a protein that is 100…

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Q: A protein is 300 amino acids long. Which of the following could be the number of DNA base pairs in…

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Q: Enumerate all the possible DNA nucleotide base sequence for the amino acids given.

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Q: Answer the following scenario like you are the experts in the field of genetic engineering. Write…

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Q: A DNA sequence can be represented as a string of the letters ACTG (short for adenine, cytosine,…

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Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.