You are reading a scientific article about cheetahs that have stripes instead of spots. The article refers to this as a genetic mutation. Though they have no negative impact on the cheetahs’ fitness, why are the stripes nevertheless considered a genetic mutation?

2. does the given statement describe a step in the transformation of the graph off(x) = x2 that would result in the graph of g(x) = -5x + 2)? a. the parent function is reflected across the x-axis. o yes nob. the parent function is stretched by a factor of 5. yes noonc. the parent function is translated 2 units up.o yes