protein synthesis lab conclusion

There are 5 steps to make a protein. Step 1: DNA info transfers to the RNA. Step 2: mRNA leaves the nucleus. Step 3: mRNA arrives at ribosome. Step 4: ribosomes reads mRND by 1 codon at a time. Step 5: When reading is done that codons would have made an amino acid.


The mutation with the greatest effect was the deletion of T it caused the ribosome to stop making the amino acid. The mutation with the least effect was the substitution T to C it caused on changes at all. If T was near the binning of the sequence it would have changed the outcome dramatically and crate a completely different protein.


I choice deletion in step 7 because I thought it would cause the greatest mutation. Like most of the mutations it had some kind of effect on the amino acid. It does matter where the mutation occurs because depending on where it is it might cause a big change or a small change.

Mutations can affect your life by changing a protein  in the a broken or damaged protein and can cause you to get a disease or cancer even. Insertion is a mutation where a one letter is added to the mRNA. This can cause the amino acid to have an extra letter at the end. Depending on where the letter is added it could change the entire amino acid into a completely different one.