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When a mutation is limited to be the substiution of one nucleotide for another, it is called

A

Translocation

B

Point mutation

C

Base inversion

D

Sugar phosphate deletion

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When heritable alterations occur in a very small segment of DNA molecule, i.e a single ucleotide or nucleotide pair then this type of mutatioon are called point mutations.
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