As a hobby you propagate a population of worms. You notice that one worm is now clear instead of being tan. You trace down the mutation and discover that it is a single basepair deletion in a pigmentation gene. Explain how a single basepair deletion could result in a drastic mutant phenotype.

Q: Which type of mutation is simulated in the following example?   Wild type: THE ONE BIG FLY HAD…

A: The mutation simulated is point mutation.

Q: Which of the following is a transition mutation? OG --> T G --> A G --> C

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Q: MM IV-1 IV-2 III-1 III-2 III-3 A) Using all available information, what is the correct inheritance…

A: Genetic inheritance studies reveal the way a particular gene or a genotype is inherited in the…

Q: What color is the alpha gene spot on the microarray? Answer: Yellow please explain why is the…

A: The microarray can be described as a lab-on-a-chip. It can be used to detect the expression of…

Q: You graduate and land a job in a medical genetics laboratory.  A particular family has been…

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Q: Expansion of a CAG repeat region by 1 repeat is an example of a frameshift mutation. Both DNA…

A: Frameshift mutation: It is a kind of genetic disorder that occurs due to insertion or deletion of…

Q: An undergraduate researcher in your lab is studying mutations affecting the wings of Drosophila…

A: Alleles of homozygous bent-winged fly which possesses the normal allele of apterous: ap+be, apbe…

Q: Each of the following describes a distinctive step in a genomic technology or an experimental…

A: Genomics is a branch of molecular biology that focuses on the study of genomes, which encompasses…

Q: Gene dosage is important for a number of genetic phenomenon. Name two and explain their relationship…

A: The gene dosage is a concept in which the synthesis and concentration of the primary gene product is…

Q: Achondroplasia is a rare form of dwarfism. It is caused by anautosomal dominant mutation within a…

A: Achondroplasia is a disease caused by an autosomal dominant mutation in the FGFR3 gene, which codes…

Q: student crossed a female worm homozygous for the dpy-17 e164 allele with a wild-type male worm…

A: Chi square test is a statistical test which is used to check whether there is significant difference…

Q: Part A. When a mutation arises, it can have three possible consequences for the individual:…

A: A negative, or deleterious, mutation reduces the organism's fitness. A beneficial or advantageous…

Q: a) How are mutations beneficial for plant breeding? Discuss with an example b) Explain in brief the…

A: Plant breeding is the process of modifying plant traits to achieve desirable properties. It has been…

Q: Let's assume a disorder which has an estimated new mutation rate of .002. The incidence of the "p"…

A: Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium is a concept that serves as a benchmark for researchers to analyze gene…

Q: You are a developmental geneticist studying flowering time variation in Arabidopsis. You perform a…

A: Genes  In biological sciences, gene is the basic hereditary unit that transfer from parents to their…

Q: A gene has length of 10000 nucleotides, some of them are ancestral (A) and others are mutant letters…

A: Assume M(t) represents the quantity of modified nucleotides at generation t and number of ancestors'…

Q: In a clinical context, doctors are evaluating a therapy for a new patient (say patient B) that they…

A: In the setting of assessing treatment for a modern patient (patient B) who may develop comparable…

Q: You have sequenced a few individuals in the population and found out that there are only two alleles…

A: Mutation is defined as the change in sequence of a gene in the DNA.

Q: Which of the following is an example of a balanced mutation

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Q: Aliens with orang eye color allele (o) is recessive to the dominant black eye color allele (O). The…

A: We aim to design a pedigree that would reveal which orange gene allele is dominant and which allele…

Q: You are attempting to genotype a series of cells at gene A through restriction enzyme digestion. You…

A: The restriction site mutation (RSM) assay is used to identify DNA mutations at common restriction…

Q: Consider a bacterium that can synthesize an imaginary amino acid called fictamine. Initially,…

A: ANSWER;-  i) Gene Y codes for enzyme 1 because when gene Y is mutated, the activity of enzyme 1 is…

Q: a. Acridine orange is an effective mutagen for producing null alleles by mutation. Why does it…

A: Acridine dyes are those small class of dyes that are basic in nature and contains an acridine…

Q: In yeast, you have sequenced a piece of wild-type DNA and it clearly contains a gene, but you do not…

A: To find the mutated genes one must code all the amino acid of the genetic modified yeast and normal…

Q: X R 18 CM E 17 CM 9 cM L P 36 CM 20 CM S 12 CM G B

A: Linkage map:Linkage map or genetic map indicates the location of each gene or genetic marker on…

Q: Scenario 2: A scientist is studying a population of lizards in a local pond. The lizards are…

A: The mutation is a heritable change in the genetic makeup of the organisms and it leads to the…

Q: Evidence [see P. G. Shiels, A. J. Kind, K. H. Campbell, et al. (1999),“Analysis of telomere lengths…

A: As it is given that analysis of telomerase length in cloned sheep suggested that the Dolly may have…

Q: You discover a recessive mutation that results in roses with no thorns (n). Investigating the…

A: No thorns is a recessive mutation. Homozygous condition of the gene (nn) produces roses with no…

Q: Suppose that you are studying the role of Protein B, which you believe plays a role in regulating…

A: Apoptosis which is also known as programmed cell death, is defined as a mechanism that will allow…

Q: The data below illustrates the role of MutS, MutH and Dam in DNA repair. Strains of E coli that are…

A: Answer .) :- MutS and MutH are two proteins involved in the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) pathway in E.…

Q: Mutations within the genes for ARSs, are known to be cause certain human maladies, such as the…

A: ARS is an amino-acyl tRNA synthetase that catalyzes the addition of amino acid to the acceptor stem…

Q: 1. Be čareful, you only have info on the phenotype. Control by gene A Control by Colorless precursor…

A: Genetic material is nothing but the sequence of nucleic acids which is called as DNA. It contains…

Q: When considering the cause of the disease in a patient who is the child of an inbred couple, it was…

A: 1. The given situation describes a child, born to an inbred couple, who is suffering from a…

Q: If the effects of mutations 1 +3 is an eye size intermediate between wild type and mutation 1 alone,…

A: DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid is a polymer of deoxyribonucleotides connected together via…

Q: Is it possible for a severe mutation-causing hereditary condition to pass down from generation to…

A: A mutation can be defined as change in the sequence of genetic letters, called bases, within a…

Q: You're studying two species of closely related mice. One has a lifespan of 32 weeks, on average; the…

A: Quantitative trait loci (QTL) are genetic areas that frequently result from genetic interactions…

Q: During the course of a research project you generate a gene knockout line in Arabidopsis thaliana to…

A: Gene knockout is a technique through which a gene is inactivated by altering or manipulating the…

Q: Explain Null (amorphic) and leaky mutations (hypomorphic), hypermorphic and neomorphic mutations

A: Mutations (changes in a gene sequence) can result in mutant alleles that no longer produce the same…

Mitochondrial Mutations

A mitochondrion is a cellular organelle that serves as the site for cellular respiration and energy production (ATP or Adenosine Triphosphate). It is a double-membrane-bound organelle and is only present in eukaryotic cells.