HEREDITY
MUTATIONS
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Question
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A parent that has a mutation to their skin cells can pass this mutation to their offspring
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True
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False
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Do Parents Pass Gene Mutations to Children? If a parent carries a gene mutation in their egg or sperm, it can pass to their child. These hereditary (or inherited) mutations are in almost every cell of the person’s body throughout their life.
Detailed explanation-2: -You can’t inherit somatic mutations because they occur randomly in cells that aren’t the sperm or egg.
Detailed explanation-3: -A gene change in a body’s reproductive cell (egg or sperm) that becomes incorporated into the DNA of every cell in the body of the offspring. Germline mutations are passed on from parents to offspring. Also called germline variant.
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