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Microbiology

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Ames test   identify which chemicals cause mutation  
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Carcinogens   chemicals capable of causing mutations that lead to cancer  
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Constitutive system   when a system is mutationally always turned on and can't be turned off  
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Frame-shift deletions   cause the letters of the codon to be completely out of register so that the words are lost from that point onward  
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Genotype   genetic sequences of the cell  
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Genotypic changes   functional losses--measured by changes in the DNA sequence  
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Heritable   mutations passed on to future generations--may be detrimental by disrupting functions of proteins for which they code--may prove beneficial to the cell  
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Induced mutations   mutations caused by man-made mutagens  
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In-frame deletions   deletions that remove 3 nucleotides (or multiples of 3)--result in the loss of one or more amino acids--sequence that occurs after deletion still in correct register or frame  
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Insertions   result in same type of changes as deletions  
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Lactose auxotroph   cells that carry mutations that change phenotypes--cell that no longer utilize lactose  
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Mutagens   chemicals and other factors not normally found in nature that alter DNA sequence  
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Mutations   change in DNA sequence  
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Nonsense mutations   convert a coding triplet into a stop codon, so the protein terminates prematurely  
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Phenotype   physical characteristics--implies that the cells are unable to metabolize lactose--defective gene, however is unknown  
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Rearrangements   part of the DNA sequence is moved to a new location  
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Regulatory mutations   Since this kind of mutational control occurs outside of structural genes that are affected  
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Spontaneous mutations   mutations that occur by mistakes in DNA synthesis or by exposure to ultraviolet rays from rays from things such as sunlight or tanning lights  
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Structural genes   gene sequences that code for actual proteins  
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Substitution mutations   likely to change whichever amino acids is located at the corresponding protein position  
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