A change in a single nucleotide of a gene.Group of answer choicesframeshift mutationnucleotide substitutionmissense mutationpoint mutationnonsense mutation

A mutation involving the addition of one or more nucleotides to a gene.Group of answer choicespoint mutationnucleotide substitutionnonsense mutationmissense mutationdeletionsilent mutationinsertion

A change in the nucleotide sequence of an organism’s DNA.Group of answer choicesdeletionnucleotide substitutionframeshift mutationpoint mutationsilent mutationnonsense mutationmutationmissense mutationNext

A nucleotide substitution that has no observable effect on the phenotype.Group of answer choicesnonsense mutationinsertionmutationframeshift mutationsilent mutationpoint mutationmissense mutationdeletion

When a mutation occurs by substitution of one base in a DNA sequence, this may result in a:Group of answer choicessilent mutationtranslocation mutationframeshift mutationreciprocal mutation

A type of mutation that occurs whenever the number of nucleotides inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three.Group of answer choicesmissense mutationpoint mutationnucleotide substitutioninsertionnonsense mutationframeshift mutationsilent mutationdeletionNext