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Change in the sequence of nucleotide in ...

Change in the sequence of nucleotide in DNA is called as

A

Mutagen

B

Mutation

C

Recombinantion

D

Translation

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B
Mutation is alteration of nucleotide sequence of genome of an organism. It refers to the changes that occurs in DNA sequence due to mistakes durig replication of DNA or due to any other mutagen present in environment.
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