The Following Questions Refer to Figure 17

question 80

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to Figure 17.5, a table of codons.

Figure 17.5
-Which of the following mutations would be most likely to have a harmful effect on an organism?

• A)a base-pair substitution
• B)a deletion of three nucleotides near the middle of a gene
• C)a single nucleotide deletion in the middle of an intron
• D)a single nucleotide deletion near the end of the coding sequence
• E)a single nucleotide insertion downstream of, and close to, the start of the coding sequence

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