About Lesson
- Mutation is the sudden heritable change other than the Mendelian segregation and gene recombination in an organism.
- Mutation may be the result of a change in a gene, a change in chromosome that involves several genes or a change in plasmagene.
- Mutations produced by changes in the base sequence of genes are known as gene or point mutations some mutations may be produced by changes in chromosome structure or even in chromosome number they are termed as chromosomal mutation.
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