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

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

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The correct answer is silent mutation. A silent mutation is a type of nucleotide substitution that does not change the amino acid sequence of the protein being produced, and therefore has no observable effect on the phenotype.

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