a. Acridine orange is an effective mutagen for producing null alleles by mutation. Why does it produce nullalleles?b. A certain acridine-like compound generates onlysingle insertions. A mutation induced with thiscompound is treated with the same compound, andsome revertants are produced. How is this outcomepossible?
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.
a. Acridine orange is an effective mutagen for producing null alleles by mutation. Why does it produce null
alleles?
b. A certain acridine-like compound generates only
single insertions. A mutation induced with this
compound is treated with the same compound, and
some revertants are produced. How is this outcome
possible?
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