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What is a missense mutation?

Important Questions on Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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Give one significant difference between the following:

Transition and transversion

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Given below is a representation of a kind of chromosomal mutation. What is the kind of mutation represented?

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What will happen when a part of the chromosome breaks and attaches to its homologue?

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Given in the figure is chromosome mutation. It is

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The formation of multivalents at meiosis in a diploid organism is due to 
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Point mutation arises due to change in
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What will happen when a part of the chromosome breaks and attaches to another non-homologous chromosome?

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Fill in the blank with the correct option from the bracket.

The category of the transposon which can perform reverse transcription is _____. (class II transposons, miniature inverted-repeat transposons, retrotransposons)

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Who discovered transposons?
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Who discovered jumping gene in Maize
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Sickle cell anemia is caused by:
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The idea of mutations was brought forth by
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Changing the codon AGC to AGA represents
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What will happen when a part of the chromosome is lost?
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To be evolutionarily successful, a mutation must be:
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A spontaneous mutation results in a couple having only female progeny.when the daughter marries and has children, none of them are males. However, in the third generation there are few male offspring. What is the most likely explanation of this observation?

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The common form of _____ or jumping gene in humans is called the _____ sequence.
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When a fragment of chromosome rejoins in reverse orientation, the mutation is called _____ mutation.
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DNA elements which can switch their position are called 
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The point mutation sequence for transition, transition, transversion and transversion in DNA are