Genetics-exam 4-Ch. 15-mutation UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers

Genetics-exam 4-Ch. 15-mutation UPDATED
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