Question

Which type of mutation results in the formation of a protein with one incorrect amino acid?

a. silent

b. missense

c. nondisjunction

d. frameshift?

Answer 1

Answer: b. missense

Mutation is a process of changing the structure of a gene, resulting to as different form that may be transmitted to succeeding generations.

There are different types of gene mutations: missense, nonsense, insertion, deletion, duplication, and frameshift. Among them, the one that results in the formation of a protein with one incorrect amino acid is the missense mutation.

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Answer 2

The type of mutation that results in the formation of a protein with one incorrect amino acid is called missense mutations. Missense mutation is one of the subcategories of base substitutions, which is considered as the simplest type of gene-level mutations.