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Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To describe: Whether a random mutation is more likely to be harmful or beneficial.
Introduction: The term mutation can be defined as the genetic modification that takes place in an organism. The mutation that occurs in an organism can occur from modification of base pairs in DNA. There are various mutagens present in the environment as well that can influence the working pathway of the process of the cell cycle and cause mutation.
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