A loss of one or more nucleotides from a gene.Group of answer choicespoint mutationsilent mutationnonsense mutationnucleotide substitutiondeletioninsertionmissense mutation
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A loss of one or more nucleotides from a gene.Group of answer choicespoint mutationsilent mutationnonsense mutationnucleotide substitutiondeletioninsertionmissense mutation
Solution
The loss of one or more nucleotides from a gene is referred to as a "deletion" mutation.
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