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AN INVERSION MUTATION HAPPENS WHEN A

SECTION OF DNA BREAKS AWAY AND REATTACHES


TO THE CHROMOSOME IN A REVERSED ORDER.
THIS CAN BE A SMALL SECTION OF DNA THAT
BREAKS AWAY OR A LARGE SECTION CONTAINING
MANY DIFFERENT GENES
TRANSLOCATION MEANS A CHANGE IN LOCATION. IT OFTEN
REFERS TO GENETICS, WHEN PART OF A CHROMOSOME IS
TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER CHROMOSOME. CHROMOSOMES
ARE STRUCTURES THAT CARRY GENES, OUR UNITS OF
HEREDITY. WHEN THIS TYPE OF TRANSLOCATION OCCURS,
IT CAN CAUSE FLAWS IN CHROMOSOMES.
NONDISJUNCTION IS THE FAILURE OF THE CHROMOSOMES
TO SEPARATE, WHICH PRODUCES DAUGHTER CELLS WITH
ABNORMAL NUMBERS OF CHROMOSOMES.

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