Mutation

Question 1

Insertion/deletion of one or more nucleotides

Answer 1

Frameshift mutation

Question 2

Change in 1 nucleotide

Answer 2

Point mutation

Question 3

Rearrangement of a segment in chromosome

Answer 3

Inversion

Question 4

Gene sequence is repeated

Answer 4

Duplication

Question 5

Failure of chromosomes to separate

Answer 5

Non disjunction

Question 6

Chromosomes break and a portion of it reattaches to a different chromosome

Answer 6

Translocation

Question 7

Gene mutation occurs in?

Answer 7

DNA replication

Question 8

Chromosomal mutation occurs in?

Answer 8

Meiosis

Question 9

Missing DNA base pair

Answer 9

Deletion

Question 10

Change in chromosome structure

Answer 10

Chromosome mutation

Question 11

Foreign substances not naturally produced or expected in the body

Answer 11

Xenobiotic

Question 12

Abnormal cell division

Answer 12

Cancer

Question 13

Example of Point Mutation

Answer 13

Sickle cell disease

Question 14

Change in nucleotide sequencing may involve only one nucleotide maybe due to error, chemicals or viruses

Answer 14

Gene mutation

Question 15

Example of Deletion

Answer 15

Cat cry syndrome

Question 16

Example of non disjunction

Answer 16

Trisomy 21