Sickle cell anemia is caused by:
| 1. | Chromosomal aberration | 2. | Point mutation |
| 3. | Non-disjunction event | 4. | An arthropod vector |
Which one of the following pairs of codons are correctly matched with their function or the signal for the particular amino acid?
1. GUU, GCU – Alanine
2. UAG, UGA – Stop
3. AUG, ACG – Start/methionine
4. UUA, UCA – Leucine
A mutation that adds or deletes a base pair from DNA is
(1) a frameshift mutation
(2) a nonsense mutation
(3) a missense mutation
(4) an aneuploid condition
Which one of the following is a wrong statement regarding mutations?
| 1. | Cancer cells commonly show chromosomal aberrations |
| 2. | UV and Gamma rays are mutagens |
| 3. | Change in a single base pair of DNA does not cause mutation |
| 4. | Deletion and insertion of base pairs cause frame-shift mutations |
| 1. | It is nearly universal across all known life forms. |
| 2. | It is triplet-based and read in a non-overlapping manner. |
| 3. | It is ambiguous, meaning multiple amino acids can be coded by the same codon. |
| 4. | It is degenerate, meaning multiple codons can specify the same amino acid. |
| 1. | Silent mutation | 2. | Missense mutation |
| 3. | Nonsense mutation | 4. | Frameshift mutation |