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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

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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

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The type of mutation that occurs whenever the number of nucleotides inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three is a frameshift mutation.

Here's why:

  1. In DNA, nucleotides are read in groups of three, known as codons. Each codon codes for a specific amino acid.

  2. If a mutation causes the insertion or deletion of a number of nucleotides that is not a multiple of three, it disrupts this reading frame.

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