BIOLOGY 1A03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Frameshift Mutation, Noncoding Dna, Dna Replication

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For individual nucleotides, mutation is a rare event. Mutation rates vary over a large range for a number of reasons. Rna viruses and retroviruses have a relatively high rate of mutation because rna is a less stable molecule than dna, but more importantly because the replication of these genomes lacks a proofreading function. For the other genomes, the rate of mutation per nucleotide per dna replication re ects differences in delity of replication and the ef ciency of proofreading and other mechanisms of dna repair. Sites in the genome that are especially mutable are called hotspots. Second, in some multicellular organisms, the rates of mutation differ between the sexes. In humans, for example, the rate of mutation is substantially greater in males than in females. In mammals, the rate of mutation per nucleotide per replication is greater in somatic cells than in germ cells. Across the genome as a whole, mutation is common.

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