Question

11. Look at problem 10. What if the mRNA had a frameshift mutation and lost the 3rd C in the second codon, what would the new mRNA strand be?

Answer 1

AUG CCC UAU AUG GUA GAG UGU AG

start pro tyr met val glu cys -

Step-by-step explanation:

After a frameshift mutation, every codon is changed. This is a missense mutation that changed all the proteins in the mRNA. Clearly, mutations can pack quite a punch in the important job of translation and transcription.