ASSESSMENT/QUIZ (MUTATION)

Identification:
Direction: Choose from the word or word inside the box that best describes the statements given. Write
your answers in the notebook.

Deletion Translocation Cri du chat

Genetic Recombinant Down’s
engineering DNA syndrome
Mutation Turner’s Chromosomal
syndrome mutation
Klinefelter’s Inversion Gene mutation
syndrome

1. This is when DNA from two different species are joined together.

2. It is a modern biotechnology that produces transgenic or GM crops of organisms.

3. This is caused by the deletion of part of the short arm of chromosome 5.

4. Usually caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21(trisomy 21).

5. A congenital (from birth) condition in which males are born with one or more extra X chromosomes.

6. The process in which the change in the base sequence of DNA that may affect only one gene, or
they may affect whole chromosomes.

7. A permanent change in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene.

8. It occurs at the chromosome level resulting in gene deletion, duplication or rearrangement that may
occur during the cell cycle and meiosis.

9. The chromosome swap one or more gene(s) with another chromosome.

10. The single chromosome mutation involving the loss of one or more gene(s) from the parent
chromosome.