An Individual Has a Metabolic Disease That Is Traced to One

question 29

Multiple Choice

An individual has a metabolic disease that is traced to one nonfunctional enzyme.Protein analysis reveals that the protein is larger than normal and fails to assemble into the proper tertiary structure.Analysis of the gene sequence will most likely reveal that the mutation

• A) disrupts the signal sequence.
• B) disrupts the initiation site.
• C) disrupts a splice site.
• D) is within an intron.
• E) is silent.

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