mod 6 Flashcards
What is Mutation?
change in genetic material ⇒ due to environmental factors.
what is Mutagen?
something that causes mutation
what is Mutagenesis?
Process of mutation
What is a tumour?
Multiple cancer cells
What causes Mutations?
(3 of them)
- UV radiation
- Chemical exposure
- Smoking/ Alcohol
How does Physical mutation?
From electromagnetic radiation, ionization radiation (harmful radiation, wavelength is small) it causes bonds to break in molecules in DNA.
How do pyrimidine dimers occur?
When there is a 2 T,T (Thymine) or 2 C,C (cytosine) next to each other, when UV radiation is present cause the A-T and A-T bonds to break, then the 2 T,T nucleotides make a bond among them (T-T) Thus making a pyrimidine dimers.
What a happens to the pyrimidine dimers when DNA replication occurs?
The section with the pyrimidine dimers is gone as there was no bond between A-T thus nothing in that section is replicated.
DNA repair of a pyrimidine dimers?
2 types
Base excision repair
- Your body recognises the pyrimidine dimers.
- Then your body cuts the primer
- Gap is then filled by DNA polymerase.
- Then it sealed with DNA Ligase
Mismatch repair
Your body finds the changed nucleotide and then corrects it
How does Chemical Mutation Occur and what does it do?
Alters the Functions of proteins,
Chemicals are similar to normal DNA so they mistakenly incorporated in DNA during DNA replication results in non-functional proteins
What are the 3 types of Mutation?
- Point mutation.
- Chromosomal mutation
- Frame shift Mutation.
What are chemical mutagens?
(3 examples)
- Alcohol
- Asbestos
- Preservatives (food)
What are the effect of mutation of Phenotype?
No change (Silent Mutation) or small or very large change in phenotype due to the type of Amino acid being substituted.
What is the type of effect of mutation on DNA (genotype)? (3 of them)
Lead to change in change in one amino acid or no change in amino acid if new base forms a triplet that codes for the same Amino acid, this can be done through,
- Substituted
- Inserted
- Deleted
what are the 4 mutations in point mutation?
-Silent mutation- no effect on amino acid (same amino acid)
-Missense mutation- a new amino acid is changed (different amino acid)
-Nonsense Mutation -Changes the amino acid to a stop codon.
-Neutral mutation – neither beneficial nor detrimental to the ability of an organism’s survival.
What is the effect of mutation on generational mutation?
Mutations can be passed on through generations whether the mutation occurs in somatic cells of germ-line cells, if in stomatic cells then the mutation is not passes on but if mutation is in germ-line cells then it can be passed on through generation.
What is Frameshift Mutation?
It is caused buy by the addition and deletion of base pairs, resulting in the movement of the whole sequence of Amino acid forward or backwards.
What is point mutation?
change that occurs to a single base pair of DNA and affects only one single gene, This occurs due to base substitution or frame shift mutation
What is chromosomal mutation?
Permanent change to a segment of chromosomes, these are large scale changes.
Examples of Chromosomal Mutation?
(3 example)
- Down Syndrome- Extra chromosome (46 47)
- Turners Syndrome- Missing an X chromosome.
- Polyploidy- One Parent contributes 22 autosomal chromosome and one gamete chromosome, but the other parent contributes 46 chromosomes.
What are the 4 types of chromosomal mutation can occur through?
-Deletion- when a section of DNA is removed.
-Insertion (Duplicated)- portion of DNA is duplicated increasing the Number of genes.
-Inversion- bases are in reverse order.
-Translocation- DNA is moved from one chromosome to a non-homologous chromosome.
What is the differences of point and chromosomal Mutation
Point Chromosomal
One gene is affected Clump of gene is affected (lager scale)
What is the similarities of point and chromosomal Mutation? (1)
Effect the phenotype and genotype
What happens if mutation occurs in somatic cells?
Somatic cells are body cells when mutation occur in these non-reproductive body cell the mutation will not be passed to offspring.
What happens if mutation occurs in germ-line cells?
They are sex cells which pass genomes to offspring, when mutation occurs in the germline cells the mutation will be passes to offspring
what part stomatic cell mutation occur?
They occur due to replication errors before mitosis
What is an example of a stomatic cell mutation?
Cancer
What does mutation causeto genetic variation?
Genetic variation as new alleles are being introduced to population.
wha do somatic and germ line mutations change ?
Causes changes to genome (DNA, gene and chromosomes)
Similarity of germ line and stomatic cells?
They both have genetic code.
Both come from a zygote
Differences of a germline and a somatic cell?
Germline cells Somatic cells
Pass info to offspring Doesn’t pass info to offspring
What is Coding DNA also known as?
Exons- coding genes that end up in mRNA
What is non-Coding DNA also known as?
Introns- noncoding genes that end up in mRNA.
What is the difference between coding and non-coding DNA?
Coding DNA is transcribed into mRNA, this is done to produce proteins,
noncoding DNA has no use in the process, does not provide instructions for making proteins
What happens in tumour suppressor genes?
Regulates cells during division.
What happens in non-coding DNA?
It regulates the promote (Switching on) and Shutting down (switch off) of genes
What happens when mutation occurs in coding DNA?
Affects the sequence of amino acid, modifies the. levels of the protein product, thus affecting the phenotype of an individual.
What happens if mutation. Occurs in tumour suppressor genes?
Cause cancers