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Is this a silent mutation or 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...
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Why is a silent mutation called silent?
Silent mutations are called silent because they have no effect on the final gene product, usually a protein. This is possible because the genetic code is redundant, meaning different triplet codons...
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What is a silent mutation?
A silent mutation is when a genetic mutation doesn't affect the phenotype.For example, if a codon that reads AAG changes to AAA, the phenotype isn't affected, because the codon would still code for...
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What is the difference between a nonsense mutation and a missense mutation?
Missense mutation: changes one sense codon to another, resulting in incorporation of amino acid.
Nonsense mutation: changes a sense codon into a stop (or nonsense) codon, resulting in premature...
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What is missense mutation?
A mutation that causes the code for the wrong amino acid.