Biology, asked by carolinew62, 2 months ago

Discuss why deletions or insertions of nucleotides are likely to be more detrimental than base substitutions.

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Answered by sanatariqahmad
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Explanation:

Because an insertion or deletion results in a frame-shift that changes the reading of subsequent codons and, therefore, alters the entire amino acid sequence that follows the mutation, insertions and deletions are usually more harmful than a substitution in which only a single amino acid is altered.

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