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Which type of mutation results from the insertion or deletion of a nucletide into the gene?.

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​Frameshift Mutation

A frameshift mutation is a type of mutation involving the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide in which the number of deleted base pairs is not divisible by three. "Divisible by three" is important because the cell reads a gene in groups of three bases.

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