■. In which situation could a mutation be passed
on to the offspring of one of the organisms
listed in the data table below?
Data Table
Name of Organism Number of Chromosomes
in a Body Cell
46
Human
Fruit fly
8
(1) Ultraviolet radiation causes fruit-fly wing
cells to undergo uncontrolled division,
resulting in cells with 9 chromosomes.
(2) A cell in the wall of the human uterus
undergoes a change, resulting in cells with
47 chromosomes.
(3) A primary sex cell in a human forms a sperm
that
contains 23 chromosomes.
(4) A cell in the ovary of the fruit fly undergoes
a
chromosomal change that results in 5
chromosomes per egg cell.