The effect of an insertion or deletion of a small number of

The effect of an insertion or deletion of a small number of nucleotides depends on: (Select all that apply.)

a. whether it involves purine or prymidine bases

b. whether it occurs in a germ-line or somatic cell

c. its size

d. whether it occurs in a coding region or noncoding region of the DNA

e. where it occurs on a chromosome

Solution

b. whether it occurs in a germ-line or somatic cell
d. whether it occurs in a coding region or noncoding region of the DNA

Mutations in germ-line are heritable, and insertion or deletions of nucleotides in non-coding DNA might not affect the organism.