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book Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl cover

Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1449686482
book Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl cover

Essential Genetics 6th Edition by Daniel Hartl

Edition 6ISBN: 978-1449686482
Exercise 15
Bax is a protein that promotes apoptosis and is normally kept inactive in healthy cells by Bcl2, which forms heterodimers with Bax. Mutations in the gene Bax are found in cancer cells
(a) Is Bax an oncogene or a tumor-suppressor gene?
(b) What type of mutations might be found in this gene in cancer cells?
(c) Will these mutations be recessive or dominant?
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The protein bax protein causes apoptosis...

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