Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology 1st Edition by Veronique Tran,Mark Saltzman

Exercise 11

A given strand of DNA undergoes a mutation because of an error in replica- tion. The given DNA strand (before mutation) has the following sequence: Upon mutation, the G nucleotide that is eight bases from the 3? end is deleted, resulting in the following sequence: Write out mRNA formed in transcription and the corresponding sequence of amino acids for both the normal and mutated sequence, highlighting the specific change that comes about from this mutation.