HEREDITY
MUTATIONS
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Question
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When grandma’s cookie recipe changed from 1 cup of brown sugar to 10 cup of brown sugar, this is an example of a ____ mutation.
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insertion
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deletion
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inversion
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Explanation:
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: -Point Mutation: Sickle cell anemia is caused by point mutations. Frameshift Mutation: Tay-Sachs disease is caused by frameshift mutations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Crohn’s disease, cystic fibrosis, and certain types of cancer are due to frameshift mutations.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mutations can be of many types, such as substitution, deletion, insertion, and translocation.
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