Chapter 01

Instructions

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In DNA adenine normally pairs with:

a) cytosine.

b) guanine.

c) thymine.

d) uracil.

A nonsense mutation involves:

a) a regulatory sequence.

b) an AG splice acceptor site.

c) the creation of a different amino acid.

d) the creation of a stop codon.

Exon skipping is associated with:

a) nonsense mutations.

b) regulatory mutations.

c) RNA processing mutations.

d) silent mutations.

Question 4

Which of the following conditions is caused by a trinucleotide (triplet) repeat expansion?

a) Cystic fibrosis

b) Duchenne muscular dystrophy

c) Huntington disease

d) Osteogenesis imperfecta

Question 5

Large triplet repeat expansions can be detected by:

a) polymerase chain reaction.

b) single strand conformational polymorphism analysis.

c) Southern blotting.

d) Western blotting.