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A silent mutation is highly unlikely to affect protein because:Select one:a. The dominant allele can compensate for the silent mutationb. It does not cause a frameshiftc. Multiple codons can code for the same amino acidd. It substitutes the same type of amino acid

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A silent mutation is highly unlikely to affect protein because:Select one:a. The dominant allele can compensate for the silent mutationb. It does not cause a frameshiftc. Multiple codons can code for the same amino acidd. It substitutes the same type of amino acid

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The correct answer is c. Multiple codons can code for the same amino acid.

This is because of the redundancy of the genetic code. There are 64 possible combinations of codons (3 base pairs), but only 20 amino acids. This means that some amino acids are coded by more than one codon. Therefore, a silent mutation, which changes one base pair but does not change the amino acid that is coded, is unlikely to affect the protein.

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