A Mutation That Changes a Codon That Originally Coded for an Amino

question 33

Multiple Choice

A mutation that changes a codon that originally coded for an amino acid into a stop codon is called a

• A)frameshift mutation.
• B)missense mutation.
• C)silent mutation.
• D)nonsense mutation.

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