Chapter 18 Flashcards
1
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Importance of mutations
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- sustainer of life and cause of great suffering
- useful for probing fundamental biological processes
2
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Somatic mutations
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- occurs in non-reproductive cells
- passed to new cells through mitosis
- creating a clone of cells having the mutant gene
3
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Germ-line mutation
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- occurs in cells that give rise to gametes
- meiosis and sexual reproduction
- all cells carry
4
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Mutations
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- Inherited alterations in the DNA sequence
5
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Types of gene mutations
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- Base substitutions
- insertions
- deletions
6
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Base substitutions (transition)
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- substitution of a purine for a purine or of a pyrimidine for a pyrimidine
7
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Base substitution (transversion)
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- substitution of a pyrimidine for a purine or of a purine for a pyrimidine
8
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Insertions and deletions
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- frameshift
- In-frame insertions and deletions
9
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Expanding nucleotide repeats
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- Increase in the number of a copies of a set of nucleotides
10
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Diseases caused by expanding nucleotide repeats
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- Huntington disease
- Jacobsen syndrome
- Myotonic dystrophy
11
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Forward Mutation
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- wild type to mutant type
12
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Reverse mutation
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- Mutant type to wild type
13
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Missense mutation
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- amino acid to different amino acid
14
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Nonsense mutation
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- sense codon to nonsense codon
15
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Silent mutation
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- codon to synonymous codon
