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A mutation that changes an amino acid codon to a stop codon, resulting in a shorter and usually nonfunctional protein.Group of answer choicesdeletionsilent mutationnucleotide substitutionnonsense mutationpoint mutationmissense mutationinsertionframeshift mutation

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A mutation that changes an amino acid codon to a stop codon, resulting in a shorter and usually nonfunctional protein.Group of answer choicesdeletionsilent mutationnucleotide substitutionnonsense mutationpoint mutationmissense mutationinsertionframeshift mutation

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The mutation that changes an amino acid codon to a stop codon, resulting in a shorter and usually nonfunctional protein, is called a nonsense mutation.

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