Aـــــــــــــــــــــــ Mutation Has No Effect on Phenotype

Question

Aـــــــــــــــــــــــ mutation has no effect on phenotype.
A)frameshift
B)deletion
C)silent
D)nonsense

Accepted Answer

A silent mutation is a type of point mutation that does not change the amino acid sequence of a protein because it codes for the same amino acid. This means that there is no effect on the phenotype, as the resulting protein is the same as the original version. Frameshift, deletion, and nonsense mutations all result in changes to the amino acid sequence and therefore can have an effect on the phenotype.