Mutation Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. causes premature death
  2. 3. purine to pyrimidine
  3. 6. wild type to mutant type
  4. 7. no change in fitness
  5. 8. moves the codon reading frame
  6. 9. one amino acid to a different amino acid
  7. 12. purine to purine or pyrimidine to pyrimidine
  8. 13. a sense codon to a stop codon
  9. 14. removes and replaces a single nucleotide
  10. 17. removal of the purine base but not the sugar-phosphate backbone
  11. 18. leaves the chemically modified base in place but undoes the modification
Down
  1. 1. removes and replaces several nucleotides that distort the shape of the helix
  2. 4. mutant type to wild type
  3. 5. causes the appearance of a new trait or function
  4. 10. a type of mutation where nucleotides are inserted or deleted
  5. 11. complete or partial loss of protein function
  6. 15. expressed only under certain conditions
  7. 16. one codon to a synonymous codon with no amino acid change