Question

Changing a sentence from "The cat ate the rat" to "The cWa tat eth era t' is similar to what type of

mutation?
A. insertion mutation
B. deletion mutation
C. point mutation
D. silent mutation

Answer 1

A. insertion mutation

Step-by-step explanation:

We added a extra nucleotide "W" in the sentence and this changed our reading frame (another acceptable answer would be frame shift mutation as well).