Effects of Mutations
- Created by: BioFreakinomics
- Created on: 15-04-16 14:15
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- Effects of Mutations
- Neutral effects
- The mutation is in a non coding part of the DNA
- It is a silent mutation
- The mutation does cause a change but has no particular advantage or disadvantage of the change
- Ability to smell honeysuckle
- Ability to roll your tongue
- Harmful or Beneficial effect
- The presence of the pigment melanin to protect against the harmful rays of UV
- Paler skin mutation = suitable for less intense sunlight as still able to produce plenty of Vit D
- Darker skin mutation = have more melanin so best suited to areas of high sunlight intensity
- Epigenetic reprogram
- Some genes code for RNA that may switch other genes on or off
- Some genes get turned on or off by the addition of methyl groups
- Stem cells are undifferentiated = become specialised as they are epigeneticallyreprogrammed
- Neutral effects
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