Biology
Grade-12
Easy
Question
The condition of sickle cell anemia is due to the
- Silent mutation
- Point mutation
- Chromosomal mutation
- Frame shift mutation
Hint:
Point mutation
The correct answer is: Point mutation
Sickle cell anemia is the result of change in a single nucleotide, and it represents just one class of mutations called point mutations.
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