HEREDITY
MUTATIONS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Mutations must be present in parents and then passed to offspring.
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Mutations can be positive and produce organisms with improved traits.
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Mutations can be fatal to the organism that has a mutation, if the mutation is in a critical gene.
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Mutations can be silent, and not affect the organism that has them, if the mutation is in a non-critical area.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The statement that is FALSE is the A), that mutations must be present in parents and then passed to off srping. Mutations results from random errors in the replication of the DNA and some mutations can be inherited but others no. So mutations are not necessarily present in parents.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Choice (a) is false. Mutations are not always dangerous. Many point mutations are either silent or neutral in effect.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following statements is true about mutations? They can produce new alleles of existing genes.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.