Biology
Biology
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ISBN: 9781259188138
Author: Peter H Raven, George B Johnson Professor, Kenneth A. Mason Dr. Ph.D., Jonathan Losos Dr., Susan Singer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Mutation is a process of alteration in nucleotide sequences of the genome of an organism. It occurs either naturally or artificially. Basically, it is the unpredictable change in the DNA sequence which is expressed slowly. Mutation is either useful or harmful. Itaffects a single gene in a base sequence or affect multiple genes in a nucleotide sequence.

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