Mutations
What is a mutation?
What is a change to DNA seqence.
What do proteins do in an organism?
What is builds your cells and features of your body
Is sickle cell anemia (blood cells shaped like curves) beneficial, neutral, or harmful and why?
What is Harmful; it carries less oxygen and cause cause blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks.
When DNA is in the cell what is the first process of it replicating what does it get transferred into.
What is it is replicated to RNA
What happens to the population of organisms that have beneficial mutations?
What is the population increases.
How can a mutation affect a protein?
What is it changes the shape and size of the protein.
How does a change in genes affect protein production?
Is the ability to digest lactose beneficial, neutral, or harmful, and why?
What is Beneficial, because it provides an extra food sources and it increases strength of bones and teeth.
Once the DNA is RNA what organelle of the cell does it go to?
What is the ribosome.
What happens to the population of organisms that have harmful mutations?
What is the population decreases
What is a beneficial mutation. Use the words survive and reproduce in your answer.
What is a mutation that increases an organisms chances of survival and reproduction
What is the relationship between proteins and traits in an organism?
What is proteins build your traits
Is vitiligo beneficial, neutral, or harmful. Explain
What is neutral, skin has patches of different color but doesn't change ability to survive and reproduce.
The ribosome builds amino acids that become what as they keep building and growing larger.
What is the protein.
What happens to the population of organisms that have a neutral mutation?
What is the population is stable (or stays the same).
What is a harmful mutation? Use survive and reproduce in your answer.
Why is it important for proteins to function correctly?
What is to build traits so that they function correctly in the body.
Is the mutations of heterochromia (two different eye colors) beneficial neutral or harmful. explain.
What is neutral, the eyes don't help them to see better or worse they are just two different colors.
Proteins lead to traits. The physical trait of an organism is called what?
What is Phenotype
In the wild Almond Trees have developed a chemical called amygdalin in their almonds. The amygdalin is poisonous to other organisms. As a result the wild animals have learned to avoid eating these nuts. What type of mutation has the tree developed?
Beneficial animals avoid eating the almonds so it increases their chances of survival and reproduction. Population will increase.
Describe a neutral mutation. Use survive and reproduce in your answer
What is a mutation that does not increase or decrease an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.
How might different proteins lead to different functions in an organism?
What is their different shape and size will change something about the trait it can help it to function better. Make it harder to function, or just change something about it but not necessarily help or hurt the function.
Is cancer beneficial neutral or harmful mutation. explain.
What is Harmful, it is cells replicating improperly and can cause damage to body systems or death.
Different phenotypes lead to what in different environments?
In the rainforest many species of birds eat frogs. Poison dart frogs however have mucus containing a neurotoxin and are brightly colored so even though they stand out most species have learned to avoid them as they are poisonous to them.What type of mutations does the frog have?
Beneficial because the neurotoxin provides a defense that will increase the survival and reproduction of the organism due to not being eaten by predators. Population will increase