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A geneticist found that a particular mutation had no effect on the protein coded by a gene. what do you think is the most likely type of mutation in this gene? why?

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Silent mutation,
There is a change in the codon but there isn't a change in the amino acid because amino acid can have multiple codons so there wouldn't be a change in the protein.
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