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What are point mutations?

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Point mutations are a knock out of a single A.A. pair that shifts the whole code causing cancer or miss development of all the proteins behind it.
Point mutations can be seen in K-Ras gene and the innactivation of the P53 to not stop the genetic mutation to arrect the cell cycle. The p53 is a tumor repressing gene.

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