Mutation: Substitution

Mutation: Substitution 

Major Ideas:

- Exchanges one or more bases for another 

- Can result in different amino acid codon reading 

Reflection with info:

During our time in class I learned that a mutation is any change in the DNA sequence. There are many different ways this can happen for example it could be a spontaneous mistake or an environmental factor. There are three different mutations that we learned about addition, deletion and substitution. In substitution one or more of the nitrogen bases is replaced by a different on. There is the same about of nitrogen bases in the DNA sequence it's just that now instead of having AUG you would have CUG or something like that. Overall I liked learning about the mutations because they were easy and by the names of each mutation you can tell easily what is going to happen to the sequence of DNA. One place you can use this is if you become someone who is a doctor because your looking for all of the possible reasons why something could have went wrong like in the DNA.

Citation: https://islaslab.wikispaces.com/Mutation