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Science Bowl Question

📅 NSB 2017🎓 HS🔄 Round 15#️⃣ Q11🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

A disease-linked, spontaneous, congenital [kon-GEH-nih-tul] germ line mutation creates a restriction site for HaeIII [HAY-three]. A diagnostic test for this mutation involves restriction digestion with endonuclease [en-doh-NEW-klee-ase] HaeIII. If the DNA of a patient with this mutation is tested and imaged using an agarose [AH-gah-rohs] gel, which of the following is expected?

W) No diagnostic point mutation exists on either maternal or paternal chromosomes
X) Both maternal and paternal chromosomes have the diagnostic point mutation
Y) Either the maternal or the paternal chromosome has the point mutation, but not both
Z) The test was inconclusive
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