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Agriculture · Q656

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 656

Q656

Most of the mutations are

A.
Recessive
B.
Harmful
Answer
C.
Germinal
D.
All of these

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Most of the mutations are harmful. Mutational effects can be beneficial, harmful, or neutral, depending on their context or location. Most non-neutral mutations are deleterious.
In general, the more base pairs that are affected by a mutation, the larger the effect of the mutation, and the larger the mutation's probability of being deleterious.