A mutation occurring when nucleotides are inserted in or deleted from a gene and the number inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three, resulting in the improper grouping of the subsequent nucleotides into codons.Group of answer choicesdeletioninsertionnucleotide substitutionnonsense mutationpoint mutationsilent mutationframeshift mutationmissense mutationNext

A type of mutation that occurs whenever the number of nucleotides inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three.Group of answer choicespoint mutationframeshift mutationmissense mutationdeletionsilent mutationnonsense mutationinsertionnucleotide substitutionNext

A loss of one or more nucleotides from a gene.Group of answer choicespoint mutationsilent mutationnonsense mutationnucleotide substitutiondeletioninsertionmissense mutation

A mutation involving the addition of one or more nucleotides to a gene.Group of answer choicesnucleotide substitutionsilent mutationdeletionnonsense mutationpoint mutationmissense mutationinsertionNext

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

A mutation that results in a codon that codes for the same amino acid.Group of answer choicessilent mutationnucleotide substitutionpoint mutationnonsense mutationdeletioninsertionmissense mutationframeshift mutationNext