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Over the years I have noticed, leaners who have embraced and employed both the elements of thought and intellectual standards into their everyday lives, especially their studies have met with greater success. You need to respond to each of the possible choices in the question below. Imagine that the doughnut is a sexually reproducing animal and that a single enzyme forms the hole. All doughnuts observed in the past have had holes Suppose a mutation occurs in one gene of the doughnut such that it now codes for an inactive protein instead of the hole-forming enzyme. Which of the following predictions would be most likely in descendants of this mutant doughnut? a. All members of the next genration will have holes. b. Heterozygous doughnuts will not have holes. c. If the cell in which the mutatin occurs undergoes mitosis, subsequent generations of doughnuts will all have holes. d. The next generation will all be holeless. e. Past generations of doughnuts have all had holes.Explanation / Answer
Option C is the correct answer.
In the question given above, it is stated that the given organism is a sexually reproducing organism. As such, for the mutation to pass on to the next generation, it should be in the germ cell and not any somatic cell. Therefore, if the cell in which the mutation occurs undergoes only mitosis, meaning that it's a somatic cell, hence the mutation will not carry over to the next generation and all the descendants of this mutated doughnut will have holes.
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