Biology · Genetics and Mutations
When in DNA molecules, one purine-pyrimidine base pair is replaced by another purine-pyrimidine base pair (i.e., purine by purine and pyrimidine by pyrimidine), it is called a:
- 1Deletion mutation
- 2Insertion mutation
- 3Transversion mutation
- 4Transition mutation✓
Correct answer
Transition mutation
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