Mutations

Question 1

Point Mutations

Answer 1

When one base is replaced by another

Question 2

Frame-shift Mutations

Answer 2

Adding on or deleting a nucleotide shifting the codons

Question 3

Non-sense Mutations

Answer 3

Any mutations that leads to a codon becoming a stop codon prematurely in the chain

Question 4

Missense Mutation

Answer 4

Any mutation that changes one amino acid into another

Question 5

Silent Mutations

Answer 5

Any mutation that doesn’t affect the amino acid created

Question 6

Conservative Mutation

Answer 6

New amino acid is the same type as the original (acidity for example)

Question 7

Non-Conservative Mutation

Answer 7

New amino acid is a different type than the original

Question 8

Deletion

Answer 8

the deletion of a nucleotide

Question 9

Inversion

Answer 9

Swapping of nucleotides

Question 10

Duplication

Answer 10

The duplication of a nucleotide

Question 11

Translocation (chromosomes)

Answer 11

2 chromosomes that aren’t homologous swapping parts

Question 12

Nondisjunction

Answer 12

occurs during meiosis when their is an uneven distribution of chromosomes