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A DNA segment is changed from AAT TAG AAA to ATT AGA AA. What type of mutation would
this be?

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Answer:

It would be deletion

Step-by-step explanation:

a base was taken away (deleted) from the sequence; it is also called a frameshift mutation.

insertion, another frameshift mutation, would be a base added and substitution, a point mutation, would be one base replaced with another.

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