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Well, the best answer to that is "Mutant".

Not all the mutations of this class are fatal, and in some cases such offsprings are born.

There is a relatively well-known example of such a case in humans- if I'm not mistaken, chromosomes 23 and 9 are involved, where the combination of the two results in a missing stop-codon, leading to a long protein that is disassembled... but I'm afraid I can'trecall the name of the protein or the disease it is related to. probably a cancer of some sort.

To the above person: You may be thinking of Down syndrome, that can occur if chromosome 23 has an extra copy (due to nondisjunction).

The process in which a section of DNA is exchanged between homologous chromosomes is known as "crossing-over" and is fairly common. So common, in fact, that it happens in every one of us, and does not mean that we will mutate. All it does is effect the possible combination of traits of our children.

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