Q. Sudden and heritable change in a character of an organism is called

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Solution:

Mutation is a sudden random change in the genetic material of a cell that potentially can cause it and all cells derived from it to differ in appearence or behaviour (i.e.,phenotype) from the normal type. Mutations occur naturally at a slow rate but they may be induced artificially by radiation and some chemicals.