Chapter 19, Problem 2CONQ

Summary Introduction

To review:

The terminology that can be used to describe a mutation that changes an AT (adenine-thymine) base pair into a GC (guanine-cytosine) base pair, which, results in the formation of truncated proteins, resulting in the death of an organism at a high temperature.

Introduction:

Mutations are changes in a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sequence that can be inherited by subsequent generations of cells. They could affect a single nucleotide or a stretch of them. Two main categories of mutations exist, namely, somatic mutation and germline mutation.