NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mutation is a change in the DNA at a particular locus in an organism. Mutation is a weak force for changing allele frequencies, but is a strong force for introducing new alleles. Mutation is the ultimate source of new alleles in plant pathogen populations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mutations can be of many types, such as substitution, deletion, insertion, and translocation.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mutations can introduce new alleles into a population of organisms and increase the population’s genetic variation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hello students, our next topic for the MCQ is ‘Mutations’. The mutation is the abrupt changes to the genetic material of organism. The mutational changes affect DNA or sometimes whole chromosome. The types of mutation are genetic mutation and chromosomal mutation. The result of mutation produces altered protein.