What is gene mutation? What is its role in organic evolution?
What is gene mutation? What is its role in organic evolution?

Solution:

Gene mutation is a heritable molecular level phenomenon in which deletion, addition, shifting or transversion of genes/codon takes place.Mutation prevents our genes to functions properly and causes chromosomal aberrations and ploidy conditions.

Role of gene mutation in organic evolution.

  • Mutation leads to origin of new organism that are more complex and diverse to survive the present scenarios.
  • Variation that is observed brings us better strains that have advanced molecular machineries to thrive.
  • It is slow process and takes years and successive generations to bring its effect.