17. Mutation, Repair, and Recombination
Spontaneous Mutations
17. Mutation, Repair, and Recombination
Spontaneous Mutations
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Practice this topic
- Multiple Choice
Which of the following tests determined that most mutations are spontaneous?
- Multiple Choice
True or False:Thymine tautomers can base pair with cytosine.
- Multiple Choice
Which of the following forms of DNA damage is NOT caused spontaneously?
- Open QuestionWhat is a spontaneous mutation, and why are spontaneous mutations rare?
- Open QuestionDescribe a tautomeric shift and how it may lead to a mutation.
- Open QuestionThe family of a sixth-grade boy in Palo Alto, California, was informed by school administrators that he would have to transfer out of his middle school because they believed his mutation of the CFTR gene, which does not produce any symptoms associated with cystic fibrosis, posed a risk to other students at the school who have cystic fibrosis. After missing 11 days of school, a settlement was reached to have the boy return to school. What ethical problems might you associate with this example?
- Open QuestionWhat genetic defects result in the disorder xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) in humans? How do these defects create the phenotypes associated with the disorder?