Thursday, August 11, 2011

If DNA and the G were deleted at the asterisk, how would this affect protein synthesis& the resultant protein?

An deletion of a DNA base would cause a frameshift mutation and all triplets in the DNA, and hence codons in the mRNA, would be out of phase and result in the wrong sequence of amino acids in the protein which would have the wrong structure and probably not function.

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