Refer to the Figure Below, and Then Answer the Question

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Essay

Refer to the figure below, and then answer the question that follows.

-Primary transcripts are spliced by enzymes that recognize base sequences at the beginnings and ends of introns.A mutation changes the base sequence in a segment of DNA.If a mutation changed the base sequence at the beginning of the first intron so that it was no longer recognized by a splicing enzyme,how would that affect translation?

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Definitions:

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