Mutations

Question 1

Swapping of purine to a purine

Answer 1

Transition

Question 2

Swapping of pyrimidine to a purine

Answer 2

Transversions

Question 3

Smallest type of mutation

Answer 3

Point mutation

Question 4

The degeneracy of the genetic code is called what?

Answer 4

Wobble hypothesis

Question 5

The hypothesis about the degeneracy of the genetic code was discovered by who?

Answer 5

Francis Crick

Question 6

Synonymous mutations are also called as ______

Answer 6

Silent mutations

Question 7

Define silent mutations

Answer 7

A mutation that changes a codon to another but results to the same amino acid

Question 8

Nonsynonymous mutations are also called as _____

Answer 8

Missense mutations

Question 9

What mutation changes the amino acid when the codon is also changed?

Answer 9

Missense mutation / nonsynonymous mutation

Question 10

What type of missense mutation changes into the same type of amino acid?

Answer 10

Conservative

Question 11

What type of missense mutation changes into a different type of amino acid?

Answer 11

Nonconservative

Question 12

What mutation results to a premature chain termination due to a change in the codon?

Answer 12

Nonsense mutations

Question 13

A mutation where the introduction or taking out of a base affects all codons, causing a frameshift

Answer 13

Indel mutation

Question 14

One or more chromosomes missing or in surplus

Answer 14

Aneuploid

Question 15

Has an extra set of chromosomes

Answer 15

Polyploid

Question 16

Multiples of the basic chromosome set

Answer 16

Euploid

Question 17

Changes in the whole sets of chromosomes

Answer 17

Abberant euploidy