Biology 2013-14
Ms. Avery
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Mutation Animation Worksheet
Go to the following website. Answer the questions below as you watch the animation.
http://www.professorcrista.com/files/animations/posted_animations/mutations_types.html 1.
What are the two main classes of mutations?
2. What is a base substitution mutation?
3. What are the three types of base substitution mutations?
4. What type of base substitution mutation produces no change in the amino acid sequence of the
protein?
5. What type of base substitution causes a single amino acid to change?
6. What type of base substitution causes a codon to change from an amino acid codon to a stop
codon?
7. What is a frame shift mutation?
8. What two things change in a frameshift mutation?
9. What is does a frameshift mutation usually lead to?
10. What are the two types of frame shift mutations?
Organize the information presented in the animation into graphic organizers below.
Mutations