Students are modeling how genes produce proteins by using wooden tiles with letters to represent the genes. In this model, the words that the combination of letters produce represents the proteins. In this model, which of the following best represents a mutation?
A. Combining many different words to create a complete message
B. Creating any word that is spelled exactly the same way forwards and backwards
C. Changing one or more of the letters so that they spell a different word, or no word at all
D. Making different words, with a certain number of letters, that have the same meaning
Select your answer:
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Which one of the following cannot be explained on the basis of Mendel’s law of dominance?
A. Alleles do not show any blending and both the characters recover as such in F2 generation
B. Factors occur in pairs
C. The discrete unit controlling a particular character is called a factor
D. Out of one pair of factors one is dominant, and the other recessive.