As a hobby you propagate a population of worms. You notice that one worm is now clear instead of being tan. You trace down the mutation and discover that it is a single basepair deletion in a pigmentation gene. Explain how a single basepair deletion could result in a drastic mutant phenotype.

As a hobby you propagate a population of worms. You notice that one worm is now clear instead of being tan. You trace down the mutation and discover that it is a single basepair deletion in a pigmentation gene. Explain how a single basepair deletion could result in a drastic mutant phenotype.

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Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)

11th Edition

ISBN:9781305251052

Author:Michael Cummings

Publisher:Michael Cummings

Chapter11: Genome Alterations: Mutation And Epigenetics

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 10QP: If the coding region of a gene (the exons) contains 2,100 base pairs of DNA, would a missense...

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