What is one way that changes can occurs in a DNA sequence?
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Answer:
C) A changed to G in the first position of the codon.
Explanation:
In the translation of DNA, triplets or codons of mRNA (a group of three nucleotides) are read according to a genetic code, to build proteins.
Proteins are composed of amino acids. In the translation process, each codon codes for an particular amino acid according to the genetic code as illustrated in the DNA codon table (attached here).
In this table we can see that if the first position of any of the codons coding for Threonine ( ACT, ACC, ACA, ACG) is changed for G, Adenine is going to be encoded instead of threonine.
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It is true that on the Galapagos islands Darwin observed tortoises with a dome and saddle shaped shells, you can see both in attached image.
Darwin observed that Galapagos Tortoises had the shells with different shapes depending on the Island they live, For example: The tortoises with saddle shaped shells were able to reach up to eat leaves of plants while the tortoises with dome shaped shells would not reach up and they would eat food from on ground sources. This made him think that the differences in tortoise shell is also a strong evidence that indicates that how tortoises have adapted themselves to better get their food as per the available resources and how they have evolved from same ancestral specie into two different species. This point also helped him in proposing the theory of evolution by natural selection.
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