ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Expression - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to use information to construct an entire organism
Storage - CORRECT ANSWER - ability to maintain and protect information
Replication - CORRECT ANSWER - ability for the information to be copied
Variation - CORRECT ANSWER - ability for the information to change
Mutation - CORRECT ANSWER - change in the DNA sequence of an organism
Reference - CORRECT ANSWER - standard from which any difference is considered a
mutation (ex: reference sequence, reference line/strain, reference genome)
Point mutation - CORRECT ANSWER - (substitution) - change of a single nucleotide (base
pair).
Silent point mutation - CORRECT ANSWER - change in nucleotide to a redundant codon
Nonsense point mutation - CORRECT ANSWER - premature (change to) stop codon
missense point mutation - CORRECT ANSWER - change in Amino acid
conservative missense point mutation - CORRECT ANSWER - new amino acid has similar
properties