A nucleotide substitution that has no observable effect on the phenotype.Group of answer choicessilent mutationframeshift mutationmutationnonsense mutationinsertiondeletionpoint mutationmissense mutation
Question
A nucleotide substitution that has no observable effect on the phenotype.Group of answer choicessilent mutationframeshift mutationmutationnonsense mutationinsertiondeletionpoint mutationmissense mutation
Solution
The correct answer is silent mutation. A silent mutation is a type of mutation in which a nucleotide substitution does not result in a change to the amino acid sequence of the protein being produced, and therefore has no observable effect on the phenotype.
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