A farmer uses triazine herbicide to control pigweed in his field. For the first few years, the triazine works well and almost all the pigweed dies; but after several years, the farmer sees more and more pigweed. Which of these statements explains why the pigweed reappeared?

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A bacterial histidine mutant was plated on minimal medium and a single colony grew. You decide to sequence the histidine biosynthetic gene of the revertant and discover that the original mutation is still present.  This colony must have been able grow due to a

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A cell is exposed to EMS (a mutagen that causes guanine to mispair with thymine) and allowed to undergo a few rounds of DNA replication.  The mutational event caused by this mutagen will be

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

A researcher studying bacterial toxin predicts that a lysine within the toxin is important for binding it’s target cell.  She used site-directed mutagenesis to change a codon for lysine (AAA) to one for asparagine (AAU).  However, the mutant toxin still binds to its target cell just as well as the wild-type toxin bound and appears to have no other changes. This type of mutation is probably

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology

Type of mutation caused by an addition or deletion of a base in a polypeptide-encoding part of a gene

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#Unit 8. Inheritance Biology