Which of the following amino acids acts as precursor to hormone epinephrine, norepinephrine and dopamine?
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Amorphic mutation
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Eomorphic mutation
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Antimorphic mutations
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Proline
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Phenylalanine
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Correct answer
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.