LS 3.2 Vocabulary Quiz Mutations

What is a mutation?

• A change in protein structure

• A change in DNA sequence

• A change in cell shape

• A change in RNA sequence

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A point mutation involves a change in how many nucleotides?

• Two nucleotides

• Three nucleotides

• One nucleotide

• Four nucleotides

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An insertion mutation results in the addition of nucleotides causing a ________.

• frameshift

• deletion

• substitution

• inversion

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What is a Deletion Mutation?

• A mutation that results in a change of one amino acid

• A mutation that results in NO CHANGE in protein

• Removing one or more of nucleotides resulting in a frameshift

• A mutation that results in a shift in the reading frame - insertion and deletions.

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A Frameshift Mutation is a mutation that results in a shift in the reading frame due to ______.

• insertion and deletions

• change of one amino acid

• NO CHANGE in protein

• removing nucleotides

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Which type of mutation results in NO CHANGE in protein?

• Deletion Mutation

• Silent Mutation

• Missense Mutation

• Frameshift Mutation

A Missense Mutation is a mutation that results in a change of ______.

• one amino acid

• the reading frame

• nucleotides

• protein structure

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What is a nonsense mutation?

• A mutation that results in a premature stop codon

• A mutation that changes an amino acid

• A mutation that deletes a nucleotide

• A mutation that duplicates a gene.

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Cancer is characterized by ______.

• controlled cell growth

• uncontrolled cell growth

• cell death

• cell repair

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Oncogenes are mutated proto-oncogenes that cause cancer by ______.

• stopping cell growth

• continuing to allow cell growth

• repairing DNA

• causing cell death

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