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Why do most changes to DNA have no effect at all

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Answer:

Some mutations don't have any noticeable effect on the phenotype of an organism.

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This can happen in many situations: perhaps the mutation occurs in a stretch of DNA with no function, or perhaps the mutation occurs in a protein-coding region, but ends up not affecting the amino acid sequence of the protein.

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Because the changes are quickly repaired

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