deletion nucleotides mutation

Question 1

Deletion of nucleotides
A mutation that occurs when a

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nucleotide (and therefore its base) is randomly deleted from the DNA sequence

Question 2

Like an insertion mutation, a deletion mutation changes the

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amino acid that would have been coded for

Question 3

Like an insertion mutation, a deletion mutation also has a knock-on effect by changing

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the groups of three bases further on in the DNA sequence
This is sometimes known as a frameshift mutation

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What does frameshift mutation cause

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This may dramatically change the amino acid sequence produced from this gene and therefore the ability of the polypeptide to function