A mutation involving the addition of one or more nucleotides to a gene.Group of answer choicesmissense mutationsilent mutationdeletionnucleotide substitutionpoint mutationnonsense mutationinsertionNext
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A mutation involving the addition of one or more nucleotides to a gene.Group of answer choicesmissense mutationsilent mutationdeletionnucleotide substitutionpoint mutationnonsense mutationinsertionNext
Solution
The mutation involving the addition of one or more nucleotides to a gene is called an insertion.
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