Problem-solving test: A mutation causing cystic fibrosis

✍ Scribed by József Szeberényi

• Publisher: The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1470-8175
• DOI: 10.1002/bmb.20221

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Terms to be familiar with before you start to solve the test: cystic fibrosis, pedigree analysis, transmembrane protein, channel protein, polymerase chain reaction, primers, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, fluorescent DNA staining, autosomal vs. sex‐linked inheritance, recessive vs. dominant inheritance, homozygote, heterozygote, frame‐shift mutation, deletion.