Answer to Question #76198 in Genetics for Mannu Kumar Shrivastava

Question

The gene sequence of chromosome is HIJKLMNOPQwhat chromosome change resulted in the following sequence of the chromosome?(a) HIJKNMLOPQ(b)HIJKLMNONOPQ(c)HIJKLLKMNOPQ(d)HIJKLMNCDEFG

Answer 1

a) in this case LMN was changed to NML, which indicates that inversion took place.
b) in this case NO repeated twice compared to the original sequence. Thus, duplication took place.
c) in this case KL region was duplicated and then inversed, thus, duplication together with inversion took place.
d) in this case, the completely new sequence was inserted. It indicates that insertion took place.