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If a Nucleotide Substitution Switched an a for a U

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If a nucleotide substitution switched an A for a U, such that the codon was read as UAA instead of AAA, what would the effect be?


A) a silent mutation
B) a missense mutation
C) a nonsense mutation
D) no mutation as nucleotides in the first position are interchangeable
E) it would initiate a tumour

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