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Nastasia [14]
3 years ago
15

What is a genetic mutation? will give brainliest

Biology
2 answers:
Vadim26 [7]3 years ago
6 0

Answer:

Acquired (or somatic) mutations occur at some time during a person's life and are present only in certain cells, not in every cell in the body. These changes can be caused by environmental factors such as ultraviolet radiation from the sun, or can occur if an error is made as DNA copies itself during cell division

Explanation:

hope it helps you

Zepler [3.9K]3 years ago
3 0

Answer: In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Viral genomes contain either DNA or RNA.

Explanation: basically DNA is copied

Read more at: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/genetic-mutation-1127/

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