When a piece of chromosome breaks off and is placed into the middle of another chromosome, this is known as chromosomal insertion.
What is a chromosome?
- It is the genetic material of an organism.
- It is made of DNA and protein.
What is insertion?
- The addition of one or more nucleotide base pairs to a DNA sequence is known as insertion.
- It can be as simple as a single base or can also be rather large.
- Fragile X syndrome is an example of an insertion mutation.
What is its effect?
Insertion in a gene can cause protein produced by the gene won't work properly.
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