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Maurinko [17]
3 years ago
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What is a insertion in biology

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Troyanec [42]3 years ago
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In genetics, an insertion (also called an insertion mutation) is the addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs into a DNA sequence. This can often happen in microsatellite regions due to the DNA polymerase slipping. ... On a chromosome level, an insertion refers to the insertion of a larger sequence into a chromosome.

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