KROK 1 Stomatology 2015 – Question 99 · KROK (Dentistry)
As a result of treatment of viral RNA with nitrous acid, UCA triplet mutated to UGA triplet. What kind of mutation occurred?
- A. Transition
- B. Inversion
- C. Nucleotide deletion
- D. Missense
- E. Nucleotide insertion
Hint
Recall what kind of chemical change nitrous acid makes to nucleotide bases and what type of point mutation such changes produce.
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