WorksheetsMutations
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Mutations can benefit an organism because they can:
Cause illness
Make an organism more suited to live in its environment.
Make organisms live shorter lives
Cause organisms to grow extra limbs.
A mutation is defined as:
A change in the cell's structure
Anything that changes in an embryo
Any change in the physical features of a human
A change in the DNA sequence
A mutation can occur if a base pair is ____________, deleted, or substituted for another.
modified
added
transferred
A mutation in which only one nucleotide is altered is called a:
Frameshift Mutation
Deletion Mutation
Point Mutation
Insertion Mutation
ATTTGAGCC- Original
ATTGAGCC - Mutated
The example above is an example of a
Insertion
Point mutation
Deletion
Substitution
Mutations are random.
True
False
What do gene mutations change?
DNA
RNA
Proteins
Lipids
