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1.You are using the mutagen hydroxylamine which replaces a G·C base pair with an A·T base...

1.You are using the mutagen hydroxylamine which replaces a G·C base pair with an A·T base pair (G to A transition).

a. Could hydroxylamine be used to induce reversion of a nonsense mutation by directly altering the mutated codon? Briefly explain your reasoning and be sure to include all possible nonsense mutations.

b. Could hydroxylamine cause a phenylalanine codon to be mutated to atyrosine codon? Briefly explain your reasoning

c. Starting with each codon for glycine and allowing hydroxylamine to cause one substitution, which codons and corresponding amino acids (other than glycine) are possible as outcomes of hydroxylamine mutagenesis?

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(a) nonsense mutations generate stop codons -UGA, UAG, UAA

Hydroxylamine shoes Gvto A mutation giving UAA in all the 3 stop codon cases, so it cannot reverse the nonsense mutation.

(b) Phe codon - UUU and UUC. Hydroxylamine cannot change it to Tyr because it only does G to A transition and there's no G in Phe codon.

(c) Glycine codons and their mutagenic outcomes:

GGU - AGU (Ser), GAU (Asp)

GGC - AGC(Ser), GAC (Asp)

GGA - AGA(Arg), GAA (Glu)

GGG - AGG(Arg), GAG(Glu)

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