In the Section "Investigating Life: Did a Myosin Gene Mutation

question 62

Multiple Choice

In the section "Investigating Life: Did a Myosin Gene Mutation Make Humans Brainier?",why would a two base pair deletion in the human myosin gene studied cause it to be nonfunctional?

• A)The two base pairs that were missing encoded two amino acids that were essential for the protein to function.
• B)The two base pairs that were missing were essential for the protein to function.
• C)It introduces a frameshift resulting in a truncated protein.
• D)It introduces a substitution mutation that changes the amino acid encoded by that codon.
• E)It introduces a silent mutation that changes the amino acid encoded by that codon.

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