Multiple choice

Which of the following amino acids acts as precursor to hormone epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine?

  1. Amorphic mutation

  2. Eomorphic mutation

  3. Antimorphic mutations

  4. Proline

  5. Phenylalanine

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Explanation

A frameshift mutation is a mutation caused by insertion or deletion of a number of nucleotides that is not evenly divisible by three from a DNA sequence. A nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a premature stop codon, or a nonsense codon in the transcribed mRNA, and possibly a truncated, and often non functional protein product. Missense mutations are types of point mutations where a single nucleotide is changed to cause substitution of a different amino acid. A neutral mutation is a mutation that occurs in an amino acid codon that results in the use of a different, but chemically similar, amino acid. Silent mutations are mutations that do not result in a change to the amino acid sequence of a protein, unless the changed amino acid is sufficiently similar to the original.