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Handwritten Summary by an Oxford Medical Student which covers all content necessary for an A* in Genetics at OCR Biology A-Level.

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Mutation
Change in the sequence of bases in DNA
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Substitution
Swapping of bases to form
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a new nucleotide
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Deletion/insertion Frameshift
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mutation

for
Degenerative Several different codons code the some amino acid
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Effects of mutations No effect , damaging beneficial
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Silent No notable effect
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Nonsense Creates stop codon - shortened protein
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a
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Missense Creation of the incorrect amino acid
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Amorph :

loss of protein function
Reduced protein function
Hypomorph
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Increased protein function
Hypermorph
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Mutagens Chemical physical or biological agent that causes mutation
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Ionizing radiation
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physical
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Chemical
Deaminating agents
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Biological Alkylating agents base analogs
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viruses
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Chromosome mutation Occur in meiosis
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Normally
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Deletion Section of :

the chromosome breaks off and is lost in the cel

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Duplication :

Sections of the chromosome duplicate
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Translocation :

Sections bream off and join a
non-homologous Chromosome
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Inversion Section breaus off reverses and the chromosome
rejoins
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