Mutations are caused by what?
Insertion, deletion, substitution, and major alteration.
Somatic Mutations are..
occur in any cell except germ cells
and are not heritable
Sickle Cell Anemia is an Autosomal Recessive Genetic Disorder Because?
Both copies of the gene must be mutated for a person to be affected.
Mutations that occur randomly are considered.
Naturally spontaneous and are linked to normal chemical or biological processes.
What are the two working theories of how mutations arise?
Resistance is a physiological response to
a
bactericide(a substance that kills bacteria)
or Resistance arises from random mutation.
Luria-Delbrück fluctuation test demonstrated...
Mutations are not adaptive but occur spontaneously and
randomly.
Genetic mutations arise in
the absence of selection, rather than
being a
response to selection.
Nonsense Mutations are..
A genetic alteration that causes the premature termination of a protein.
What are mutations?
These are inherited changes in the genetic material. They provide new genetic variation that allows organisms to evolve.
CRISPR stands for...
Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.