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| Mutations are a heritable change in genetic information. Cells make mistakes copying, insert the wrong base, and can skip a strand. |
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| Point mutation is a change in one or a few nucleotides that occur at a single point in the DNA sequence. They include substitution, insertion, and deletion. It usually occurs during replication. |
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| A frame shift mutation is when the mutation change every amino acid that follows the point of mutation and the groupings shift in every codon following the mutation. Insertion and deletion are examples. |
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| A mutagen is a heritable change in genetic information. It can be a chemical or physical change in the environment. |
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| Polyploidy is a condition in which the organism has extra sets of chromosomes. |
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