How is a protein affected by a missense mutation?

Both a silent and missense mutation is a change in one nucleotide. However, a silent mutation still codes for the same amino acid, but a missense mutation codes for a different amino acid. This means...

A missense protein is a protein translated due to a change in a single amino acid.

ya it affects it

If the mutation is in a coding region of a chromosome, then you may have one of several errors. The most likely would be a frameshift error or a substitution error. With a frameshift error, a base...

it can cause cancer