BIOL 2299 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Base Pair, Missense Mutation, Thymine

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Transcription=production of rna strand from dna template including. Rna contains the base uracil in place of thymine and the sugar ribose instead of deoxyribose. Rna is synthesized from template dna following strand separation of the double helix. Transcription of mrna occurs in 5" to 3" direction. Mrna codes for amino acids in polypeptide chain. Mrna translated in nonoverlapping groups of three base codons that specify the sequence of amino acids in proteins. Transfer rnas(trna) contain triplet base sequences=anticodons, which are complementary to codons in mrna. Redundant code: 64 possible combinations of 3 nucleotides, but only 20 amino acids. So there are more than one codon per aa. Mutation refers to any heritable change in a gene. Substitution of one dna base pair for another base. Mutations can cause the insertion of an incorrection amino acid in a protein and impair its function. Make an mrna transcript and translate to protein.

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