Gene Mutation

A DNA strand that originally reads 5’-GATATC-3’ undergoes a mutation that changes it to 5’- GATCATC-3’. This is an example of what type of mutation?

• Insertion

• Point mutation

• Nonsense mutation

• Deletion

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

2. Which of the following is not an example of a point mutation?

• Silent mutation

• Nonsense mutation

• Missense mutation

• Frameshift mutation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

3. Imagine that a mutation occurs so that the codon UAU mutates to UAA. What type of mutation occurs? ACA AUU CGG UAU GAG UUU AGC

• Silent mutation

• Non-sense mutation

• Deletion

• Missense mutation

4. Frameshift mutations are the result of what occurrence?

• A nucleotide-pair substitution

• A mutation that changes one amino acid to another.

• Insertions or deletions that are not a multiple of three.

• A mutation that changes an amino acid codon to a stop codon

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

5. THE BAT PAT THE CAT mutated to THE BAT ATT HEC AT. What type of mutation shows here?

• Deletion

• Insertion

• Substitution

• Inversion