Friday, July 22, 2011

Does anyone speak DNA science? I need a translation!?

It basically just says that mutation causes a deletion of the G pair at position 507 changes the order of the order of other codons to be messed up to. DNA is made up of base pairs (thats what A,T,G, and C stand for) which code for genes when they are listed in certain orders. These codons are just blocks of base pairs that code for something. The mutation deletes one of these and messes up the reading order which is what causes problems. An example of this would be if you took the words CAT HAT RAT. the mutation deletes the T in CAT. Now you have CAH ATR AT when you read it in three word segements. obviously this is not the original message and is messed up.

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