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Mutations

Mutations. Mutation: damage to genetic material. A mutation to genetic material is usually not beneficial. Mutagens are things that cause mutations, they include: 1. High Temperatures 2. Toxic Chemicals (pesticides, etc) 3. Radiation (nuclear and solar)

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Mutations

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  1. Mutations

  2. Mutation: damage to genetic material A mutation to genetic material is usually not beneficial. Mutagens are things that cause mutations, they include: 1. High Temperatures 2. Toxic Chemicals (pesticides, etc) 3. Radiation (nuclear and solar) Many common place items are capable of causing mutations: microwave, fruit from the store, radar, cellular phones….

  3. Somatic vs Germ Mutations Some people may have mutations in their skin cells or hair. Such mutations are termed Somatic. Germ mutations occur only in the sex cells. These mutations are more threatening because they can be passed to offspring (forever).

  4. Meiosis is a prime time for mutations to occur. The germ mutations that occur during meiosis could be passed on during a fertilization

  5. Mutations effect protein synthesis Transcription: Mutated DNA will produce faulty mRNA leading to the production of a bad protein.

  6. Types of mutations Chromosomal: affecting whole or a part of a chromosome Gene: changes to the bases in the DNA of one gene

  7. Chromosome Mutations: Nondisjunction During meiosis tetrads may not segregate or in meiosis II, sister chromatids may stick together. Nondisjunction. The above karyotype is of a person who has nondisjunction of the 21st shromosome or Down syndrome. (note the extra chromosome)

  8. Nondisjunction of the sex chromosomes

  9. Gene Mutations: DNA base alterations Point mutation Insertion* Deletion* Inversion *Frame Shifts*

  10. Point mutation - when a base is replaced with a different base. CGG CCC AAT to CGG CGC AATGuanine for Cytosine Insertion - when a base is added CGG CCC AAT to CGG CGC CAA TGuanine is added Deletion - the loss of a base CGG CCC AAT to CGG CCA A T loss of Cytosine

  11. Frame Shift mutations • A frame shift mutation results from a base deletion or insertion. Each of these changes the triplets that follow the mutation. CGG CCC AAT to CGG CGC CAA T • Frame shift mutations have greater effects than a point mutation because they involve more triplets (recall how important triplets are to protein synthesis)

  12. The Frame shift changes the mRNA produced. mRNA from DNA as expected…….. GGG CCC TTT AAA CCC GGG AAA UUU Mutated DNAGGC GCC CTT TAA A CCG CGG GAA AUU U All the triplets are changed, this in turn changes the amino acids of the protein!

  13. Protein shape determines how a protein will function. A change in one amino acid may change the shape enough to distort the protein (as in sickle cell disease). Thus, change in one base could potentially distort a whole protein. It is more likely that a frame shift mutation will change several triplets and distort a protein’s structure.

  14. Practice some examples?

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