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How can point mutation be a nonsense mutation?

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A point mutation is single change in a base of a sequence of DNA. This change can be a missense mutation where a different amino acid is transcribed due to the change in a base. However if a change in base results in a stop codon (nonsense mutation) then the sequence ends up being cut short.

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