Question

While working with cultured mouse cells, a researcher unknowingly treated the cells with a mutagen that causes the deletion or insertion of individual nucleotides in DNA. Subsequently, the researcher isolated and cultured a single cell from this group and noticed that the progeny of this cell were not producing a certain protein and that this affected their survival. The mutation that resulted from the accident was probably:

Answer 1

Frameshift mutation.

Step-by-step explanation:

Frameshift mutation may be defined as a type of genetic mutation in which the reading frame get change and result in the different protein product. This mutation may cause detrimental genetic defects.

The nucleotide may insert or delete in the frameshift mutation. The triplet amino acid get change and result in the different protein product. The nucleotide sequences are not divisible by three in the frameshift mutation. The mutation occurs in the experiment is frameshift mutation.

Thus, the answer is frameshift mutation.