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What mutation has occurred here? 
T-G-A-C-C-A
T-G-A-G-C-A

• Substitution
• Deletion
• Insertion
• Frameshift 

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A mutation is

• any change that is harmful

• any change in a gene or chromosome

• any change that is helpful

• any change in the phenotype

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Genetics is the study of ______________

• DNA

• heredity

• genes

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What do you call all of the instructions on how to make you? (all of your DNA)

• Allele

• Chromosome

• Genome

• Nucleus

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Heredity is the passage of what from parent to offspring?

• genetic material

• digestive enzymes

• Connective Tissue

• Oxygenated Blood

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The inherited traits of an organism are governed by –

• leukocytes

• cytoplasm

• enzymes

• genes

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What type of change in genetic material causes skin cancer?

• Increased kinetic energy

• Increased electrical energy

• warmth

• damage

• photosynthesis

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Curly hair

• Genotype

• Phenotype

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Genes are found on

• ribosomes
• Chromosomes
• lysosomes
• endoplasmic reticulum

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Insertion

• A

• B

• C

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