Original: 5' - | GGC | GTG | GTA | TTA | GCG | - 3'
Mutation#1: 5' - | GGC | GCG | GTA | TTA | GCG | - 3'
Answer choices:
- Transition
- Transversion
- Nonsense
- Silent
- Missense.
1- This mutant DNA sequence is the result of a ........ mutation. (Transition
or Transversion)
The correct answer is transition mutation.
transverion mutation is when a prymidine base (T) was replaced by annother prymidine base (C).
2- The effect of this base substitution on the amino acid sequence results in a ........ mutation.
The correct answer is a missense mutation.
This mutation is of T to C leads to amino acid subsitution of Alanine (GCG) instead of Valine (GTG).