Lab 3.2.2 The Genetic Code and Lab 3.2.3 Does Changing one Nucleotide make a Difference
Base Pair Mutations
Before I started taking Biomedical Sciences I didn't understand how mutations effected the body. I learned that base pair mutations can have lasting affects on stimulated proteins and how the body functions. There are two types of mutations that we touched on in class, point mutations and frame shift mutations. A point mutation is when a base pair in someone's DNA is substituted for a different base pair and only effects one point in the DNA sequence. They call a frame shift mutation a deletion because once a certain pairing in the DNA is deleted, the rest of the sequence is shifted down from that deletion. A deletion/frameshift mutation is the most harming to the body because it changes the entire DNA sequence past the point of the mutation. A point mutation is less harming to the body because it only changes the one certain point and the rest of the sequence is unharmed.
Base Pair Mutations
Before I started taking Biomedical Sciences I didn't understand how mutations effected the body. I learned that base pair mutations can have lasting affects on stimulated proteins and how the body functions. There are two types of mutations that we touched on in class, point mutations and frame shift mutations. A point mutation is when a base pair in someone's DNA is substituted for a different base pair and only effects one point in the DNA sequence. They call a frame shift mutation a deletion because once a certain pairing in the DNA is deleted, the rest of the sequence is shifted down from that deletion. A deletion/frameshift mutation is the most harming to the body because it changes the entire DNA sequence past the point of the mutation. A point mutation is less harming to the body because it only changes the one certain point and the rest of the sequence is unharmed.