Question

what are the differences between the different types of mutations?

Answer 1

If you are asking in relation to genetics, some mutations are deletion, insertion, inversion, substitution and translocation.

Answer 2

The difference between translocation and the other 4 is that translocation is for whole bits of chromosomes (its often lethal) while the other 4 are small mutations in the nucleotide sequence of DNA.

Answer 3

Oh, btw, just for the for future, you should ask bio questions in the biology section :P

Answer 4

Thanks for the help and I didn't know because it is for a chemistry class.

Answer 5

Oh, ok, if its for chem. class, you could be a bit more specific with the answer and talk about the structure of the nucleotides & the bonding, but thats probably not required as it doesn't directly answer the question.