often resulting in a frameshift Cystic fibrosis Chromosomal mutation Inversion One region of a chromosome is flipped and reinserted Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome Deletion A region of a chromosome is ...

point mutations and chromosomal aberrations. In point mutations, one base pair is changed. The human genome, for example, contains over 3.1 billion bases of DNA, and each base must be faithfully ...

Researchers investigated whether decades of low-level radiation exposure had caused genetic mutations ... example, exposure to high doses of radiation can introduce instability from the ...