A dysfunctional Eustachian tube that is always open is called a patulous Eustachian tube. Patients with this rare condition are plagued by chronic ear infections. A much more common problem is a failure of the Eustachian tube to effectively regulate air pressure.
A frameshift mutation (also called a framing error or a reading frame shift) is a genetic mutation caused by indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides in a DNA sequence that is not divisible by three.he frameshift mutation will also alter the first stop codon (UAA, UGA or UAG) encountered in the sequence. The polypeptide being created could be abnormally short or abnormally long, and will most likely not be functional.
A frameshift mutation completely changes the genetic code from the point of the mutation, so the protein made as a result of the mutation would have the incorrect structure an â¦ d would not function as it should. 2 people found this useful.