PATHOLOGY MCQ
GENETICS AND DISEASE
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Question
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Students are modeling how genes produce proteins by using wooden tiles with letters to represent the genes. In this model, the words that the combination of letters produce represents the proteins. In this model, which of the following best represents a mutation?
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Changing one or more of the letters so that they spell a different word or no word at all.
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Combining many different words to create a complete message.
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Making different words, with a certain number of letters, that have the same meaning.
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following would be the most immediate result of a gene mutation in an organism? A change in a protein produced by the organism.
Detailed explanation-2: -In gene therapy, DNA which encodes a healthy, functional gene is used to replace a mutated gene. This technology will most likely have which of the following results? Diseases caused by mutated genes will have new treatments.
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