Re: [HAPS-L] Mutations and words

[Ken Saladin <ksaladin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 05:57 PM 2/1/2006, you wrote:



Greetings, I'm looking for analogies that I can use in a non majors course
to describe some basic genetics (not my area).

If this is somewhat correct (please correct my thinking if it is not).
I was trying to think of a sentence (representing a peptide) where a single
letter change dramatically changes the meaning of the sentence (i.e. A
mutation).

Any critique or thoughts or your good examples.
Thanks
Terry Favero



THE DOG ATE THE CAT 
Then a deletion mutation eliminates the G, with a resulting frame shift into nonsense:
THE DOA TET HEC AT

Is that what you mean?


Ken