B3 - Harmful Mutations

• they can result in producing the wrong protein.
• they can result in producing no protein at all.

The above can lead to the wrong reaction occuring, or no reaction at all.

• mutations in reproductive cells can cause abnormal development.
• mutations in reproductive cells can also cause death during development.

The above can therefore be traumatic to the parents, and will harm/kill the baby.

• mutations in body cells causes cell multiplication.
• the multiplication of cells that goes out of control is called cancer.

Cancer is often fatal, and hard to treat.