To: tomzz
yes, you are right, a mutation is less genetic information and results in disease.
13 posted on
05/21/2006 8:08:06 PM PDT by
Coleus
(I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic)
To: Coleus
a mutation is less genetic information and results in disease.
Not always.
Sometimes the change in a single nucleotide will still code for the
same amino acid...hence you can (if lucky) have a mutation that
is "silent"...and would go unnoticed, but for sequencing of the
DNA sequence of the gene from other people without the mutation.
14 posted on
05/21/2006 8:29:08 PM PDT by
VOA
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