DNA mutation?

Question

i am supposed to choose a media character (spiderman, ninja turtles, etc.) and explain the process of mutation and how it could've created such an organism, use the terms: dna, rna, protein, transcription, translation, frameshift, nucleotide, nondisjunction, point mutation. after explaining the mode of creation, explain your ideas for the biological future of this organism.

...any ideas?

Answer 1

Spiderman - The venom from the spider spread into parker's blood stream into his DNA, fusing with his already formed DNA, giving him supernatural spider like ablities.

In real life if a radioactive spider bit a human it would kill them or give them cancer.

Answer 2

Frameshift mutation is because of insertations or deletions the most changing mutation. A point mutation may not change an organism very much because it is just one nuculotide and nothing shifts the entire DNA orr RNA strand. So for your media characterthe most obvious unique characterisitc would be the result of a frameshift mutation. One that is not obervable at all can be a result of a point mutation. I hope this helps. Let me know if you need more help!

Answer 3

Everyone acquires some changes to their DNA during the course of their lives. These changes occur in a number of ways. Sometimes there are simple copying errors that are introduced when DNA replicates itself. (Every time a cell divides, all of its DNA is duplicated so that the each of the two resulting cells have a full set of DNA.) Other changes are introduced as a result of DNA damage through environmental agents including sunlight, cigarette smoke, and radiation. Our cells have built in mechanisms that catch and repair most of the changes that occur during DNA replication or from environmental damage. As we age, however, our DNA repair does not work as effectively and we accumulate changes in our DNA.

A gene is essentially a sentence made up of the bases A, T, G, and C that describes how to make a protein. Any changes to those instructions can alter the gene's meaning and change the protein that is made, or how or when a cell makes that protein. There are many different ways to alter a gene, just as there are many different ways to introduce typos into a sentence. In the following examples of some types of mutations, we use the sentence "The fat cat ate the wee rat" as a sample gene:



Point Mutation
A point mutation is a simple change in one base of the gene sequence. This is equivalent to changing one letter in a sentence, such as this example, where we change the 'c' in cat to an 'h':


Original
The fat cat ate the wee rat.

Point Mutation The fat hat ate the wee rat.

Frame-shift mutation
Frame-shift mutations. In a frame shift mutation, one or more bases are inserted or deleted, the equivalent of adding or removing letters in a sentence. But because our cells read DNA in three letter "words", adding or removing one letter changes each subsequent word. This type of mutation can make the DNA meaningless and often results in a shortened protein. An example of a frame-shift mutation using our sample sentence is when the 't' from cat is removed, but we keep the original letter spacing:


Original
The fat cat ate the wee rat.

Frame Shift The fat caa tet hew eer at.

Deletion
Mutations that result in missing DNA are called deletions. These can be small, such as the removal of just one "word," or longer deletions that affect a large number of genes on the chromosome. Deletions can also cause frameshift mutations. In this example, the deletion eliminated the word cat.


Original
The fat cat ate the wee rat.

Deletion The fat ate the wee rat.

Insertion
Mutations that result in the addition of extra DNA are called insertions. Insertions can also cause frameshift mutations, and general result in a nonfunctional protein.


Original
The fat cat ate the wee rat.

Insertion The fat cat xlw ate the wee rat.

Inversion
In an inversion mutation, an entire section of DNA is reversed. A small inversion may involve only a few bases within a gene, while longer inversions involve large regions of a chromosome containing several genes.


Original
The fat cat ate the wee rat.

Insertion The fat tar eew eht eta tac.


DNA expression mutation
There are many types of mutations that change not the protein itself but where and how much of a protein is made. These types of changes in DNA can result in proteins being made at the wrong time or in the wrong cell type. Changes can also occur that result in too much or too little of the protein being made.

Answer 4

Talk about a " hopeful monster ". Whoever gave you that assignment needs to review evolution by natural selection. Perhaps, some younger and more speculative evolutionary biologist will handle this one; I would not know how to do any more than begin, here.

PS Any such mutations would likely be deleterious, thus ending the " hero's "blastulaic life.

Answer 5

interesting subject or idea that was assigned to u... lol
it will take soo much of my time just to freaking give a broad explanation why such a particular thing would not be possible!! but leave it up to the imagination of humans to think that it is possible... naturally selected genes are pass on and preserve, while those that are weak die out...

Answer 6

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