BIO 2306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Germline Mutation, Missense Mutation, Nonsense Mutation

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Somatic mutation : mutation in a cell that does not give rise to gametes. Mutation : heritable change in genetic information. Germline mutation : mutation in a germ-line cell, one that gives rise to gametes. Gene mutation : mutation that affects a single gene or locus. Chromosome mutation : difference from the wild type in the number of or structure of one or more chromosomes; often affects many genes and has large phenotypic effects. Base substitution : mutation in which a single pair of bases in dna is altered. Transition : base substitution in which a purine is replaced by a different purine or a pyrimidine is replaced by a different pyrimidine. Transversion : base substitution in which a purine is replaced by a pyrimidine or a pyrimidine is replaced by a purine. Insertion : mutation in which nucleotides are added to a dna sequence.

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Due to a recessive mutation in gene A, amino acid âGluâ in position 25 of polypeptide A (the wild polypeptide) is replaced by âAlaâ. Individuals who are homozygous for the mutant allele (aa) donât have any phenotypic alterations. Based on this observation, which of the following IS TRUE?

	A.	The mutation has occurred in the promoter.
	B.	The mutation has occurred in one of the introns of the encoding gene.
	C.	The mutation was a base substitution in one of the exons of the gene, but has not changed the active site of the enzyme.
	D.	The mutation has occurred in a non-coding region of the genome.
	E.	The mutation was an insertion or deletion of a base pair in the second exon of the gene.

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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%

1. An occurrence of a gene made larger by trinucleotide repeats is:

Allelic expansion

Nucleotide expansion

Translocation mutation

Transformation

2. a chemical that can damage and/or change DNA is called a/an:

Allele

Endonuclease

Vector

Mutagen

3. An occurrence when a section of a chromosome relocates itself to an entirely different (non-homologous) chromosome is called a/an:

Inversion mutation

Translocation mutation

Transformation mutation

Duplication mutation

4. The tandem repeat in the sequence GGGAAGGGAAGGGAAGGGAAGGGAAG is:

GGA

GGGAA

GGAAG

GGAAGGG

A disease characterized by abnormally shaped hemoglobin is called:

Cystic Fibrosis

Sickle Cell Anemia

Marfan Syndrome

Leukemia

5. A point mutation that causes a substitution of a stop codon with an amino acid and leads to the formation of a longer protein is a:

Nonsense mutation

Missense mutation

Sense mutation

Frameshift mutation

6. Addition or deletion of nucleotides in a DNA sequence is known as a:

Nonsense mutation

Missense mutation

Sense mutation

Frameshift mutation

7. The least severe type of chromosomal mutation is:

Point

Frameshift

Inversion

Translocation

8. Chemicals inserting themselves into DNA can cause a:

Missense mutation

Nonsense mutation

Sense mutation

Frameshift mutation

9. A genetic condition caused by allelic expansion is:

Familial hypercholesterolemia

Fragile X syndrome

Alkaptonuria

Galactosemia

10. Which of the following is most likely the original DNA strand if the mutated DNA strand is ATAGUUGATGUA ?

ATAGAAGATGAA

ATAGCCGATGCA

ATAGGGGATGGA

ATAGTTGATGTA

11. An unbalanced chromosomal mutation would include a/an:

duplication (insertion)

inversion

translocation

denaturation

12. Many translocation mutations are found to be involved with:

cancers

sickle cell anemia

Huntington disease

cystic fibrosis

13. A common repeat throughout the human genome that is approximately 300 bases in length is called a/an:

EcoRI repeat

Hind repeat

Exo repeat

Alu repeat

14. A balanced chromosomal mutation includes:

imprintation

denaturation

inversion

deletion

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