Genetics Mutation Flashcards
[…] are random and rarely occur. Genotypic mutation rate is the number of mutations that happen per replicated […]. Mutations at the DNA level are low and similar in different […]; about 10^-9 per replicated base pair
Gene mutations; base pair; organisms
Genes with elevated mutation rates are called […]. One reason for mutation hotspots is large […] size. For example, the […] gene associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the […] gene associated with neurofibromatosis are large genes each with a mutation rate of about 10 ^ -4.
mutation hotspots; gene; DYS; NF1
Mutations that occur in […] cells, giving rise to sperm and egg, are called germ-line mutations. Germ-line mutations can be passed from one […] to the next. Cells not in the germ line are […] cells; thus mutations in such cells are called somatic mutations. Somatic cells divide by […] and only direct descendants of the original mutated cell will carry the mutation
germ-line; generation; somatic; mitosis
Most commonly, gene mutations substitute, add, or delete one or more […]. Localized mutations, or […] mutations, occur at a specific, identifiable position in a gene or a specific location anywhere else in the genome. Such mutations have varied […] depending on the type of sequence change and the location of the affected part of the gene
DNA base pairs; point; consequences
Base-pair substitution mutations: the replacement of one […] by another. 2 types: […] mutations: one purine replaces another, or one pyrimidine replaces another . […] mutations: a pyrimidine is replaced by a purine or vice versa
nucleotide base pair; Transition; Transversion
[…] mutation: a base-pair change that does not alter the resulting amino acid due to the redundancy of the genetic code (AKA Silent mutation). […] mutation: a base-pair change that results in an amino acid change in the protein. […] mutation: a base-pair change that creates a stop codon in place of a codon specifying an amino acid
Synonymous; Missense; Nonsense
Insertion or deletion of one or more base pairs leads to addition or deletion of […], which may alter the reading frame of the message. These are called […] mutations. The […] amino acid sequence is produced starting at the point of mutation; premature stop codons may also be produced
m R N A nucleotides; frameshift; wrong
Some point mutations […] the amount (but not the amino acid sequence) of protein product produced by a gene. These […] mutations affect regions such as promoters, introns, and the regions coding for 5’-UTR and 3’-UTR segments. Three types of regulatory mutations are recognized: […], […], […].
alter; regulatory; Promoter; Splicing;
Polyadenylation
Mutations that alter consensus sequence nucleotides of promoters are called […] mutations. These interfere with […] transcription initiation. Some promoter mutations cause mild to moderate reductions in transcription levels, whereas others may […] transcription
promoter; efficient; abolish
Efficient splicing of introns from m R N A requires […] at either end of the intron.
Mutations that alter these nucleotides are called […]. These can result in splicing errors and the production of mutant proteins due to the […] of intron sequences in the m R N A
specific sequences; splicing mutations; retention
Some base-pair substitution mutations produce new splice sites that replace or compete with authentic splice sites during […]. These are called […] splice sites. A base-pair substitution changing […] at position 110 of human β-globin intron 1 creates an A G cryptic splice site
This leaves […] additional nucleotides in the mature mRNA
mRNA processing; cryptic; G to A
Mutation of the […] signal sequence at the 3’ end of eukaryotic mRNA can block the proper 3’ processing of mRNA. This occurs in a […] mutant form of the human α-globin gene, leading to severe reduction in functional α-globin protein produced
polyadenylation; rare
[…] mutation: converts a wild-type allele to a mutant allele. […] mutation or [..]: converts mutant alleles to wild-type or near wild-type allele. […] reversion: wild-type DNA sequence is restored by a second mutation within the same codon
Forward; Reverse; reversion; True
[….] reversion: occurs through second mutation elsewhere in the same gene
[…] reversion: occurs by mutation in a different gene that compensates for the original mutation, restoring the organism to wild-type. Second-site reversions are also known as […] mutations because the second mutation “suppresses” the mutant phenotype caused by the first mutation
Intragenic; Second-site; suppressor
[…] mutations arise in cells without exposure to agents capable of inducing mutation. These arise primarily through errors in […] or spontaneous changes in the chemical structure of a nucleotide base.
Spontaneous; DNA replication
