Yes, this is true, and it is actually one of the organisms driving evolution! Some organisms develop mutations that are actually beneficial (better eye-sight, for example) and they're more likely to pass those to their children that individuals without those mutations!
No, because it still codes for valine in this case, but if another nucleotide was changed such as GCA it would code for alanine instead.
Metagenomics is the study of genetic material recovered directly from environmental sample. Its field has been responsible for substantial advances in microbial ecology, evolution, and diversity over the past 5 to 10 years and many research laboratories are actively engaged in it now. Using metagenomics, the distinctions between bacterial species are based upon the comparison of DNA nucleotide sequences of different bacterial species.
Answer:
on a tyrosine residue
bind to insulin
Explanation:
The insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS1) is a signaling protein that can be phosphorylated on multiple tyrosine and serine/threonine residues. IRS1 contains several conserved domains including a pleckstrin (PH) domain and a PTB domain involved in protein phosphorylation and ligand binding. In the first place, IRS1 is phosphorylated on a tyrosine residue, and then IRS1 binds to insulin or the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), thereby activating transduction pathways such as, for example, MAPK/ERK. Moreover, RS1 is also phosphorylated on serine residues, thereby triggering opposite effects in insulin-associated signaling.