Objective: Students will predict and produce the outcomes of transcription and translation using a lab activity and the words codons, amino acids, tRNA, mRNA, frameshift mutation, missense mutation, silent mutation, point mutation.
Question:
1.
What is a frame-shift mutation?
2.
What’s the difference between a silent mutation and a frame-shift mutation?
3.
Are amino acids affected by point mutations? Explain.Exit Ticket:
Finish the following sentence on the white board, "I wonder..." OR "Protein synthesis is a process that..." Sign your initials next to your sentence.
