A friend of yours claims to have identified a gene that causes a human disease! Your friend says that they have sequenced the DN
A of someone with the disorder and compared that to a healthy individual. They found a nucleotide difference in a gene called Hsr12 that encodes a protein whose function is cell-to-cell communication. What is wrong with your friend's claim?
Answer: Point mutation is easily reversible, thus non-lethal
Explanation:
Point mutation is caused by exchange of a single nucleotide for another. These change is called
1) Transition (when a purine base substitute another purine base, or pyrimidine bases substitute each other)
2) Transversion (when a purine base substitute a pyrimidine base).
However, note that a point mutation can be easily reversed by another point mutation; so, the claim that a nucleotide difference in the Hsr12 gene caused the human disease is inaccurate
Meiosis is the type of cell division that reduces the number of chromosomes in the parent cell by half and produces four gamete cells this process is required to produce egg and sperm cells for sexual reproduction
