Question

What type of mutation occurred in the DNA in the table below?
At what position did the mutation occur?
Would the resulting protein be affected by the mutation?

Answer 1

Answer:

In the table, the mutation occurred at position 4. TAG is the sequence affected. It is a stop codon. It was mutated into GAG which is Glu. So, yes it would be affected since the stop codon was mutated. The type of mutation that occurred is a base substitution.

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