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Burka [1]
3 years ago
12

How are genetic mutations caused and what effect can they have on an organism?

Biology
1 answer:
Iteru [2.4K]3 years ago
4 0

Some mutations don't have any noticeable effect on the phenotype of an

organism. This can happen in many situations: perhaps the mutation occurs

in a stretch of DNA with no function, or perhaps the mutation occurs in a

protein-coding region, but ends up not affecting the amino acid sequence of

the protein.

Hoping my answer works for you :)

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