HEREDITY
MUTATIONS
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deletion
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inversion
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insertion
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translocation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Insertion Mutation Examples For example, some diseases caused by insertional mutations include: Fragile X Syndrome. Huntington’s Disease. Myotonic dystrophy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mutations can be of many types, such as substitution, deletion, insertion, and translocation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Insertion An insertion, as related to genomics, is a type of mutation that involves the addition of one or more nucleotides into a segment of DNA. An insertion can involve the addition of any number of nucleotides, from a single nucleotide to an entire piece of a chromosome.
Detailed explanation-4: -A frameshift mutation in a gene refers to the insertion or deletion of nucleotide bases in numbers that are not multiples of three.