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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
CBSEENBI12047465

The type of mutation in the nucleotide sequence given below is

  • Transition

  • Transversion

  • Deletion

  • Inversion

Solution

D.

Inversion

Inversion mutation causes distortion of DNA. The mutation or a mutagen can change the base sequence of a cistron in the reverse order. A new sequence is formed with different codons.