Frameshift!

[anacas]

So I'm still up studying genetics (and yeah, I know cowhockey is probably going to yell at me for failing at having a reasonable sleep pattern. Phhhhbt. It'll restabilize in time for the weekend, promise), and it suddenly occurred to me

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good luck with finals

[sylviaplathish]

i really want to laugh, but i dont think i recall waht a frameshift mutation is? but the idea that the test is mutated or leads to? i think itll be funny once i find my bio book (goes to look).

Re: good luck with finals

[anacas]

A frameshift mutation is a base addition or deletion that changes the reading frame--since bases are read in codons of three, a 1-base addition or deletion can completely change the amino acid sequence. Similarly, if I'd accidentally bubbled the answer to question 3 in the space for question 2 and kept on going like that, I would've bombed. Fortunately, I didn't!

[cowhockey]

i don't care what you sleep schedule is, as long as you get here on saturday before prom.

[anacas]

See, I made it!

[cowhockey]

yes you did :)

[joneko]

That was always my worst fear on scantrons! I know three people who have done that -- and two of them were teachers telling us horror stories about their youth XD One of them did it on an LSAT or something -- the medical one, you know the one I'm talking about.

[anacas]

Heh. That makes me really glad the MCAT is computerized now, so I can't possibly do that :) I'd have nightmares for sure, otherwise.

[balmofgilead]

It's 1.5+ years after you posted this, but I did find it amusing, so I'll let you know anyway.

(Bio major here. I don't think my genetics tests were ever scantrons though.)