While the DNA in a human skin cell was being replicated, a single base was miscopied. What will be the most likely result of this for the cell in which it happened?

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anonymous · Answer

All the proteins the cell creates from the miscopied strand will do different jobs than the old ones. 

 If the new sequence codes for the same amino acid as the original cell, it will function normally.


 Both new DNA strands will end up together in a new cell, and the inaccurate one will be discarded. 

 Any miscopied DNA will be replaced with an accurate DNA copy once the cell divides.

anonymous · Answer

also if you can help me figure out 3 ways seeds disperse please.

anonymous · Answer

sorry, i was not on this page. the answer you are lookin for is tany miscopied DNA will be replaced with an accurate DNA copy. well one way seeds disperse is through eating of the 'fruit', and natural elements water, and wind blowing the 'seeds' in the air.

anonymous · Answer

okay what do you mean by eating of the fruit?

anonymous · Answer

well once an animal eats a fruit, they digest the yummy part and leave the seeds in their excrement (poo).

anonymous · Answer

ahhh. okay haha :) what about this one,  How is fragmentation different from fertilization?

anonymous · Answer

fragmentation i assume you mean reproduction. fragmentation is when they clone into smaller pieces which will grow into fully functional part. fertilization usually has a bit of sharing involved. one gives up a certain amount of the genomic information and the other gives up some as well to make a lovely new 'baby'.

anonymous · Answer

actually im talking about plants haha

anonymous · Answer

so are you talking about apoptosis, or what exactly. because if you are talking about plant reproduction it still is relevant.

anonymous · Answer

fragmentation occurs in some organisms that reproduce asexually..an example would be spirogyra, a ribbon like organisms living in water that can fragment into pieces to become independent organisms...a way of producing many independent living organisms from one parent.

Fertilization involves two parental gametes whose nuclei fuse to form a fertilized cell...It's all about sexual reproduction and meiosis.

anonymous · Answer

Seeds can be dispersed either by animals, wind, water or by itself (we call it self-dispersal). Seeds or fruits possess relevant features that suit or adapt them to be dispersed differently.

anonymous · Answer

If the new sequence codes for the same amino acid as the original cell, it will function normally.