Inversions Are Most Likely to Affect an Organism's Phenotype

question 9

Multiple Choice

Inversions are most likely to affect an organism's phenotype

• A)if one or both of the inversion's breakpoints lies within the transcribed region of a gene.
• B)if the inversion's breakpoints are on either side of a gene and its regulatory regions and the entire gene is reversed in the genome.
• C)if the inversion is pericentric.
• D)if the inversion is paracentric.
• E)if the inversion is small.

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