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

Answer:

AUG CCC UAU AUG GUA GAG UGU AG

start   pro   tyr    met   val     glu    cys   -

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.