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Arindam Paul posted an Question
November 11, 2020 • 11:18 am 30 points
  • IIT JAM
  • Biotechnology (BT)

Which of the following mutations would be most likely to have a harmful effect on an organism ? (a) a base-pair substitution (b) a single base deletion near the

Which of the following mutations would be most likely to have a harmful effect on an organism ? (A) a base-pair substitution (B) a single base deletion near the middle of an intron (C) a single base deletion close to the end of the coding sequence (D) a single base insertion near the start of the coding sequence

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    Anup Padwal Best Answer

    D. because if a single base insertion near the start of the coding sequence change the initiation codon. which ultimately results in inhibition of transcription and no gene product synthesized.

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