Sickle cell anemia is the clinical manifestation of homozygous genes for an abnormal hemoglobin molecule. The event responsible for the mutation in the B chain is:
Ans. D. Point mutationThe mutation in HbS is an example ofPoint mutationPartially acceptable mis-sense mutationTransversionBase substitution.Nonconservative mutation
Insertion
Deletion
Nondisjunction
Point mutation
Molecular Genetics