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What would be the effect of an addition or a deletion of one of the bases in a codon?

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Answer: 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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