Clonidine should not be used by people who have a known allergy to this drug. If a person has underlying depression, clonidine should be used with caution and under close physician supervision. Clonidine should not be abruptly withdrawn but rather, slowly decreased over several days to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
Three ways mutations can occur in genes are: 1. Insertion: Extra DNA nucleoties are added to the DNA strand. 2. Deletion: DNA nucleotides are deleted, therefore, changing the â¦ DNA sequence. 3. Translocation: parts of chromosomes are exchanged.or example, this can happen during crossover during the formation of gametes. Substitution mutations happen when one nucleotide (the smallest unit of DNA) is replaced by another. These are caused by a number of chemicals that look like something in between both of those nucleotides.
However, these mistakes are rare, and the cell has repair mechanisms that can repair some damage. - Sometimes a permanent change occurs in a cell's DNA and this is called a mutation. - Because a mutation in a gene causes a change in the protein that is made, the enzyme is nonfunctional. Types of mutations - Mutations can range from changes in a single base pair in the coding sequence of DNA to the deletions of large pieces of chromosomes. - Point mutations involve a chemical change in just one base pair and can be enough to cause a genetic disorder. - A point mutation in which one base is exchanged for another is called a substitution. - Most substitutions are missense mutations, where the DNA code is altered so that it codes for the wrong amino acid. - Other substitutions, called nonsense mutations, change the codon for an amino acid to a stop codon. Nonsense mutations cause translation to terminate early. Nearly all nonsense mutations lead to proteins that cannot function normally. - Another type of mutation that can occur involves the gain or loss of a nucleotide in the DNA sequence.