Genetics Mutations

________ are changes in genetic material. 

• Genes

• Mutations

• Variations

• Biology

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_________ are strands of DNA that have been tightly coiled. 

• Genes

• Traits

• Chromosomes

• DNA

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Forensic scientists study ______ to help figure out crimes.

• DNA

• plants

• cells

• fossils

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Differences in traits are called _________ and explain why siblings don't look exactly alike.

• mutations

• variations

• traits

• evolution

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Changes is DNA sequences that affect genetic information are known as

• replications

• mutations

• transformations

• translations

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Changes in DNA sequences that affect genetic information are known as:

• replications

• mutations

• transformations

• translations

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Humans have ____ chromosomes.

• 57

• 22

• 46

• 100

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In genetic …………………is an alteration in the nucleotide sequence of the genome

• Mutation

• Segregation

• Transformation

• None of the Above

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What type of mutation involves substituting a DNA base with a different base but still forms the same protein?

• point mutation

• frameshift mutation

• silent mutation

• chromosomal mutation

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Why would a frameshift be more harmful?

• It changes all the code downstream

• Only one nucleotide is changing

• All mutations are harmful

• It can't correct iself

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