{"id":2534,"date":"2016-06-02T17:12:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T17:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/biologyxwaymakerxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2534"},"modified":"2024-04-26T00:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:28:57","slug":"outcome-dna-mutations","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/chapter\/outcome-dna-mutations\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to DNA Mutations","rendered":"Introduction to DNA Mutations"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you'll learn to do: Recognize the impact of DNA mutations<\/h2>\r\nA mutation is a permanent alteration in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene; that is, the sequence differs from what is found in most people. Mutations range in size; they can affect anywhere from a single DNA building block (base pair) to a large segment of a chromosome that includes multiple genes. Gene mutations can be classified in two major ways:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Hereditary mutations are inherited from a parent and are present throughout a person\u2019s life in virtually every cell in the body.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Acquired (or somatic) mutations occur at some time during a person\u2019s life and are present only in certain cells, not in every cell in the body.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nMutations can impact an organism in both negative and positive ways\u2014and sometimes a genetic mutation doesn't impact the organism at all!","rendered":"<h2>What you&#8217;ll learn to do: Recognize the impact of DNA mutations<\/h2>\n<p>A mutation is a permanent alteration in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene; that is, the sequence differs from what is found in most people. Mutations range in size; they can affect anywhere from a single DNA building block (base pair) to a large segment of a chromosome that includes multiple genes. Gene mutations can be classified in two major ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hereditary mutations are inherited from a parent and are present throughout a person\u2019s life in virtually every cell in the body.<\/li>\n<li>Acquired (or somatic) mutations occur at some time during a person\u2019s life and are present only in certain cells, not in every cell in the body.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mutations can impact an organism in both negative and positive ways\u2014and sometimes a genetic mutation doesn&#8217;t impact the organism at all!<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2534\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to DNA Mutations. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Public domain content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>What is a gene mutation and how do mutations occur?. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: NIH. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ghr.nlm.nih.gov\/primer\/mutationsanddisorders\/genemutation\">https:\/\/ghr.nlm.nih.gov\/primer\/mutationsanddisorders\/genemutation<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/about\/pdm\">Public Domain: No Known Copyright<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":11,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to DNA Mutations\",\"author\":\"Shelli Carter and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"pd\",\"description\":\"What is a gene mutation and how do mutations occur?\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"NIH\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ghr.nlm.nih.gov\/primer\/mutationsanddisorders\/genemutation\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"pd\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"5ae7ed34-89c9-495c-9478-5b2866e97373","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2534","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":316,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6782,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2534\/revisions\/6782"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/316"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2534\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}