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Question 1

what is a missense mutation and what is its effect?

Answer 1

amino acid code altered to a different amino acid

could change protein shape, resulting in a non-functional protein or have no effect

Question 2

what is a nonsense mutation and what is its effect?

Answer 2

change in code creates a stop codon

protein will be shorter and may be non-functional

Question 3

what is the effect of a splice-site mutation?

Answer 3

result in some introns being retained and/or some exons not included in the mature transcript

Question 4

what are pharmacogenetics?

Answer 4

the use of genome information in the choice of drugs

Question 5

function of primers for DNA polymerase

Answer 5

short strand of nucleotides which binds to the 3’ end of the template DNA strand