Answer:
This question lacks options, the options are:
A) Deletion
B) Duplication
C) Inversion
D) Insertion
The correct answer is Insertion mutation
Explanation:
Mutation refers to changes that occur to the nucleotide sequence of a gene or DNA. Mutation produces different effect in the mutated organism and is classified based on how it occurs. Mutations can be deletion, insertion, duplication, inversion etc.
Based on the description of the mutation that occured to the bacterium sequence, it is an INSERTION MUTATION. An insertion mutation is a kind of mutation in which extra nucleotide bases are added to the original sequence. This is the case of this bacteria sequence, which was previously found to contain: ATCGGGATCCT.
After few generations, nucleotide bases "GGG" i.e three Guanine bases has been added to the sequence to give a mutated sequence: ATCGGGGGGATCCT.
