One possible result of chromosomal breakage is for a fragment to join a nonhomologous chromosome. What is this alteration called?
A) deletion
B) transversion
C) inversion
D) translocation
E) duplication

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This alteration is called translocation, which is defined as the movement of a segment of DNA from one chromosome to another nonhomologous chromosome. Deletion refers to the loss of a segment of DNA, inversion refers to the reversal of the direction of a segment of DNA, transversion refers to a point mutation that replaces a purine with a pyrimidine or vice versa, and duplication refers to the repetition of a segment of DNA.

One Possible Result of Chromosomal Breakage Is for a Fragment