HEREDITY
MUTATIONS
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to destroy viral cells that infect rice plants
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to create beneficial traits that can be passed on to offspring
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to reduce the amount of fertilizer that the rice plants will need
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to eliminate the rate of insect infestation among the rice plants
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Detailed explanation-1: -Based on scientific researches, mutations are rare occurrences is the statement that best describes mutation. A sudden and unanticipated change that occurred in a gene which result in a new character in an organism is known as mutation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary. Natural selection can cause microevolution, or a change in allele frequencies over time, with fitness-increasing alleles becoming more common in the population over generations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mutations can occur during DNA replication if errors are made and not corrected in time. Mutations can also occur as the result of exposure to environmental factors such as smoking, sunlight and radiation.
Detailed explanation-4: -By changing a gene’s instructions for making a protein, a variant can cause a protein to malfunction or to not be produced at all. When a variant alters a protein that plays a critical role in the body, it can disrupt normal development or cause a health condition.