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What is a base-pair substitution?
(gene mutation)

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noun, plural: base pair substitutions. A type of mutation involving replacement or substitution of a single nucleotide base with another in DNA or RNA molecule. Supplement. This type of mutation occurring in noncoding sequences often does not result in an altered amino acid sequence during translation.

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