Biology 2581B Lecture 2: kohalmi notes

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What is a mutation: a change in dna sequence can be inherited. What is a mutant: an organism that experiences a change in dna sequence. How can you tell between mutant and wild type: what is considered the norm wt, what is more frequent wt, who was first wt, who displays a negative effect m. Base pair substitutions replacement of a base pair of nucleotides in a dna sequence with another base pair transitions: substitution of a purine to a purine or pyrimidine to a pyrimidine: 2 transitions: C t transversion: substitution of a purine to a pyrimidine or vice versa: 4 transversions: Fluctuation test results an assay for the detection of mutation induction in bacteria by chemicals test results disprove the first hypothesis: that mutations occur in response to a stimulus. Replica plating penicillin resistant colonies grow in the same position on all three plates meaning the mutation was already present prior to adding the stimulus.

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GENETICS QUESTION: For this experiment we focused on forward genetics: First, his- mutants were identified and then complementation analysis was used in order to determine which of the 7 his genes was mutated. ( The exact data can be seen at the bottom). In this experiment we screened for his- mutants that were generated via a random mutation process resulting from errors in DNA replication or induced by EMS aka Ethyl methanesulfonate. We compared a mutagenized culture that was treated with EMS and an un-mutagenized culture that was not treated with EMS. However, both cultures went trhough an enrichment process to increase the frequency of his- mutants.

Point mutations involve the substitution of one type of base pair for another. If the substitution replaces a purine with a purine (or a pyrimidine with a pyrimidine), it is called a transition. If the substitution replaces a purine with a pyrimidine (or a pyrimidine with a purine), it is called a transversion. Many mutagenic chemicals cause this type of mutation by alkylation of a nucleotide base. The chemically altered base can then be misread during replication or repair. For example the mutagen, ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS), adds an ethyl (-CH2-CH3) group to both guanine or thymine bases causing the modified guanine to pair with thymine and the modified thymine to pair with guanine.

1. Why might one gene be more susceptible to EMS mutagenesis than another gene?

2. Why might we have expected to find a higher frequency of polar mutants (his4A^-B^-C^-) in the unmutagenized culture compared to the mutagenized culture?

Table 2. Experiment 1B class data summary (number of his^-mutants by section) Unmutagenized
Section	1	2	3	*4ABC*	4A	4B	4C	5	6	7	*Total his^-* mutants**
Tuesday	7	1	5	4	2	1	9	2	3	1	35
Wednesday	2	1	14	0	4	2	2	4	8	2	39
Total	9	2	19	4	6	3	11	6	11	3	74
% each mutant	12.1	2.7	25.7	5.4	8.1	4.1	14.9	8.1	14.9	4.1	~100%

Mutagenized
Section	1	2	3	4ABC	4A	4B	4C	5	6	7	*Total his^-* mutants**
Tuesday	2	5	4	2	6	5	5	0	4	1	34
Wednesday	9	1	15	0	9	1	2	2	9	4	52
Total	11	6	19	2	15	6	7	2	13	5	86
% each mutant	12.8	7.0	22.1	2.3	17.4	7.0	8.1	2.3	15.1	5.8	~100%

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