A change in a nucleotide sequence that results in addition or deletion of a single nucleotide and largely changes the amino acid sequence of the resulting peptide is known as a
A) nonsense mutation.
B) silent mutation.
C) missense mutation.
D) frameshift mutation.
E) none of the above
D) frameshift mutation.
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