<span>The correct answer is A) a single amino acid may have more than one codon that translates for it.</span>
<span>This property of the codon is called codon degeneracy and is the redundancy of the genetic code. As a result, there is the multiplicity of three-base-pair codon combinations that specify an amino acid and that increases tolerance to point mutations (synonymous mutations). Usually, the codons encoding one amino acid differ in the second or third position.</span>
Answer:
Option A, most closely related to mammals
Explanation:
Insects like arthropods and molluscs have an open circulatory system and thus do have a distinguishable heart. Fish has two chambered heart. Reptiles have three chambered heart. Amphibians too have a three chambered heart.
All mammals and fish have four chambered heart. The right and left sides of the chambers have restricted entry and hence remain intact from each other
Hence, option A is correct
Atoms, molecules, cell membranes, then cell (in order from smallest to biggest).
Answer:
C) Through genomic imprinting, methylation regulates expression of the paternal copy of the gene in the brain.
Explanation:
The pattern of gene expression wherein either paternal or maternal gene is expressed in specific cells while the other one is prevented from expression is known as genomic imprinting.
In the given example, the maternal copy of the gene on chromosome 15 is expressed in brain cells while its paternal copy is not expressed in these cells. Hence, the pattern of expression of this gene is regulated through genome imprinting. One of the mechanism is methylation of cytidine residues of CpG islands of the DNA that are more frequently present within promoters of the genes.
When the cytidine residues of these sequences are methylated into 5-methylcytidine, the transcription factors do not bind to these promoters preventing the expression of these genes.
Hence, methylation of cytidine residue in CpG islands of the promoters of the gene present on chromosome 15 could have silenced its expression in brain cells.
