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What is a mutation of a single gene?

Updated: 8/9/2023
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by what protocol we can mutate a single gene from leishmania

BY ANOTHER PERSON - The answer is POINT mutation. I'm doing the worksheet too LOL

hahah everyone is doing miggis homework huh

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Too bad I can't find the rest of the answers for that homework D:

But yea it is Point

Some genetic disorders result when a mutation causes the product of a single gene to be altered or missing. ~From my science book o-o lol

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No, chromosome mutations are due to change in either the chromosome structure or the chromosome number of a cell.

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Yes.

More precisely, it is gene mutation. A mutation caused by duplication, deletion or inversion comes under the category of chromosomal mutation.

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You have this situation backwards. A change in a gene can create a mutation. Mutations do not produce changes in genes. Genes are the cause, mutations are the effect.

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