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

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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)
Dystrophin Gene (Mutant)
DNA: GCG-AGC-ATA-CCC
DNA: GCG-AТА—ССС
RNA: CGC-UCG-UAU-GGG
RNA: CGC--UAU--GGG
AA:
ARG SER
TYR
GLY
AA: ARG--TYR--GLY
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
Transcribed Image Text: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) Dystrophin Gene (Mutant) DNA: GCG-AGC-ATA-CCC DNA: GCG-AТА—ССС RNA: CGC-UCG-UAU-GGG RNA: CGC--UAU--GGG AA: ARG SER TYR GLY AA: ARG--TYR--GLY 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
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