HEREDITY
MUTATIONS
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Question
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What is it called when a point mutation messes up several amino acids?
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Chromosomal Mutation
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Reading Frame Mutation
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Frameshift Mutation
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Amino Acid Mutation
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A missense mutation is a DNA change that results in different amino acids being encoded at a particular position in the resulting protein. Some missense mutations alter the function of the resulting protein.
Detailed explanation-2: -(FRAYM-shift myoo-TAY-shun) An insertion or deletion involving a number of base pairs that is not a multiple of three, which consequently disrupts the triplet reading frame of a DNA sequence.
Detailed explanation-3: -No, point mutations and frameshift mutations are two different types of gene mutations that happen in the nucleotide sequence of a gene.
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