Why does an insertion mutation usually cause more defects during protein synthesis than a point mutation?
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This means that the codons (triplets of nucleotides) that specify the amino acids in the protein will be different from the original sequence. As a result, the protein may have extra amino acids, missing amino acids, or a completely different sequence of amino Show more…
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