Cystic Fibrosis is a genetically heritable disease caused by the loss of the chloride channel, CFTR. Studies of this gene have found that the Gene includes 250,000bp in the DNA. Scientists found that the mRNA had 6,500 nucleotides, and the final protein had 1480 amino acids. How much of the mRNA is untranslated? How much of the RNA that is produced does not leave the nucleus? One of the mutations that results in a disease phenotype can be easily identified because the mutation results in a much longer mRNA then normal. Where would you look for this mutation? What might this mutation have affected?
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.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetically heritable disease caused by the loss of the chloride channel, CFTR. Studies of this gene have found that the Gene includes 250,000bp in the DNA. Scientists found that the mRNA had 6,500
How much of the mRNA is untranslated?
How much of the RNA that is produced does not leave the nucleus?
One of the mutations that results in a disease
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