2. Muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness as individual muscle cells atrophy (gradually decline) and die. (Transcribe & Translate the Mutant) Dystrophin Gene (Normal) DNA: GCG-AGC-ATA-CC Dystrophin Gene (Mutant) DNA: GCG-ATA-CCC RNA: CGC-UCG–UAU-GGG RNA: CGC--UAU--GGG AA: ARG SER TYR GLY AA: ARG--TYR--GLY KK 2A. Were the effects of this mutation, beneficial, harmful, or neutral? Justify your position based on the image to the left? |2B. What type of mutation occurred in the gene sequence that produced muscular dystrophy? Normal biceps Muscular dystrophy
Gene Interactions
When the expression of a single trait is influenced by two or more different non-allelic genes, it is termed as genetic interaction. According to Mendel's law of inheritance, each gene functions in its own way and does not depend on the function of another gene, i.e., a single gene controls each of seven characteristics considered, but the complex contribution of many different genes determine many traits of an organism.
Gene Expression
Gene expression is a process by which the instructions present in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are converted into useful molecules such as proteins, and functional messenger ribonucleic (mRNA) molecules in the case of non-protein-coding genes.
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