B.5 Mutations

Causes death, often before birth

• Lethal Mutation

• Deletion

• Inversion

• Translocation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A chromosome fails to separate from its homologue during meiosis

• Nondisjunction

• point mutation

• substituion

• frameshift mutation

One or more nucleotides are added to a gene, which can result in a frameshift mutation

• Insertion Mutation

• Frameshift Mutation

• Substitution

• Point Mutation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

occurs in an organism's gametes

• Chromosome Map

• Map Unit

• Germ-Cell Mutation

• Somatic-Cell Mutation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

take place in a person's body cells and therefore affect the organism

• Chromosome Map

• Map Unit

• Germ-Cell Mutation

• Somatic-Cell Mutation

the loss of a piece of chromosome due to breakage

• Lethal Mutation

• Deletion

• Inversion

• Translocation

A chromosomal fragment breaks off, flips around backwards and reattaches.

• Lethal Mutation

• Deletion

• Inversion

• Translocation

A piece of one chromosome breaks off and reattaches to a nonhomologous chromosome

• Lethal Mutation

• Deletion

• Inversion

• Translocation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

the substitution, addition, or removal of a single nucleotide

• Nondisjunction

• point mutation

• substituion

• frameshift mutation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

one nucleotide replaces another

• Nondisjunction

• point mutation

• substituion

• frameshift mutation

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2