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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 choicesmissense mutationpoint mutationnucleotide substitutioninsertionnonsense mutationframeshift mutationsilent mutationdeletionNext

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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 choicesmissense mutationpoint mutationnucleotide substitutioninsertionnonsense mutationframeshift mutationsilent mutationdeletionNext

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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.

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