Becker's World of the Cell 9th Edition by Lewis Kleinsmith, Jeff Hardin, Gregory Paul Bertoni

Exercise 10

Mutatis mutandis You work in a lab that uses the nematode C. elegans as a model organism. You find that one of the strains you iire using has an inexplicably high incidence of mutations. It turns out this is because this strain is carrying an active transposon that was accidentally introduced into the strain. Indeed, such strains are called "mutator" strains by labs that work on worms. Why would a transposon cause such a high incidence of mutation