Life in the Universe (4th Edition)
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Author: Jeffrey O. Bennett, Seth Shostak
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Chapter 5, Problem 34TYU
Which of the following mutations would you expect to have the greatest effect on a living cell? (a) a mutation that changes a single base in a region of noncoding DNA; (b) a mutation that changes the third letter of one of the three-base “words” in a particular gene; (c) a mutation that deletes one base in the middle of a gene.
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