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Define the following
(i) Frame shift mutations.
(ii) Genetic drift.

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(i) A frameshift mutation is a genetic muta tion caused by a deletion or insertion of one or more nucleotide pairs in a DNA sequence at one or more places that shifts the way the sequence is read. (ii) Genetic (gene frequency) or allele frequency drift refers to the change in a type of genes in a small population due to a random occurrence.
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