Mutations and Genes

What is a gene?

• an instruction for making a protein molecule

• Builds a protein molecule

• an instruction for making a trait

• an instruction for making a feature

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What is a mutation?

• a planned change to a gene that sometimes results

  in a new trait

• a random change to a gene that sometimes results

  in a new trait

• a random change to a gene that always results

  in a new trait

• a random change to a gene that sometimes results

  in a new protein molecule

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Which is true?

• Genes provide instructions for making proteins, but they do not build the proteins themselves.

• Genes provide instructions and build proteins.

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Different versions of a gene can also be called

• alleles

• versions

• variation

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Mutations that affect the trait of an organism are:

• Rare

• Not Rare

• Very rare

• Somewhat rare

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Mutations do not have an affect on a trait because:

• They interact with other proteins

• They interact with new proteins

• They interact with old proteins

• They do not interact with other proteins

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Mutations result in a ______ protein

• New

• Old

• longer

• shorter

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