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What happens to codons is an insertion or deletion mutation ?

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When a nucleotide is wrongly inserted or deleted from a codon, the affects can be drastic. Called a frameshift mutation, an insertion or deletion can affect every codon in a particular genetic sequence by throwing the entire three by three codon structure out of whack

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