A mutation changes a codon from UCG to UAG. This mutation is a:
Missense mutation
Silent mutation
Frameshift mutation
Nonsense mutation
Related Questions
A single human cell contains approximately base pairs of DNA. Given that the distance between consecutive base pairs is nm, calculate the total length of DNA in a human cell.
2.2 m
0.34 m
6.6 m
0.22 m
In DNA helix presence of hydrogen bonds was first observed by?
Watson
Crick
Pauling
All
The number of hydrogen bonds between adenine and thymine in a DNA molecule is
Two
Three
Four
Eight
In DNA, which of the following is absent?
Adenine
Thymine
Guanine
Uracil
Which of the following is structural subunit of DNA?
Protein
Carbohydrate
RNA
Nucleotides
The human genome contains approximately base pairs per haploid set. If the distance between two consecutive base pairs is nm, calculate the approximate length of DNA in a diploid human cell.
2.0 m
1.0 m
4.0 m
0.5 m
โIt has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic materialโ. This is written by
Meselson and Stahl
Archibold Garrod
Severo Ochoa
Watson and Crick
Read the following statements w.r.t. B-DNA (A) Backbone is formed by the sugar-phosphate sugar chain (B) The two strands of polynucleotides are antiparallel (C) At each step of ascent, the strand turns (D) The rise per base pair would be How many statements are correct?
1
2
3
4
Double helix model for the structure of DNA was proposed by?
Watson and Crick
Wilkins and Franklin
Crick and Wilkins
Franklin and Watson