Curcumin, a substance found in the spice turmeric, has long been used in Asian medicine to treat a variety of maladies. Now some research suggests that curcumin may help prevent or treat cancer. Curcumin is thought to have antioxidant properties, which means it may decrease swelling and inflammation.
The types of mutations include: This type of mutation is a change in one DNA base pair that results in the substitution of one amino acid for another in the protein made by a gene. A nonsense mutation is also a change in one DNA base pair.
This type of analysis is also used in the type of DNA testing that is used in crime labs or used to determine paternity. POINT MUTATIONS, often caused by chemicals or malfunction of DNA replication, exchange a single nucleotide for another.oint mutations that occur within the protein coding region of a gene may be classified into three kinds... A. nonsense mutations: code for a stop, which can truncate the protein. B. missense mutations: code for a different amino acid. C. silent mutations: code for the same amino acid.