Question 33

(Multiple Choice)

A polypeptide in a wild type microbe contains the sequence Leu-Pro-Tyr-Ser-Pro. A phenotypic variant of the species has the peptide sequence Leu-Pro-Cys-Ser-Pro. This is an example of a(n) ________ mutation.


A) nonsense
B) missense
C) silent
D) frameshift
E) inversion

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