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Vaselesa [24]
4 years ago
7

New sequencing techniques reveal that a child is heterozygous for a new mutation. this mutation appears in all of the cells test

ed from a variety of tissues (including skin, blood, and hair). the mutation is not found in similar tissues in either the mother or the father. most likely, this is a new _______ mutation that occurred in _______.
Biology
1 answer:
natka813 [3]4 years ago
6 0
The new mutation is not found in either the mother or the father. Most likely, this is a new somatic mutation that occurred in the child. Somatic mutation<span><span> is a genetic alteration acquired by a cell that can be passed to the progeny of the mutated cell in the course of cell division</span>.</span>

 





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