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How does a Point mutation affect the gene code

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Point mutation also known as gene mutation is the change in a single nucleotide or a pair of nucleotide in the segment of DNA.
It causes frame shift mutation which includes the insertion or deletion of a base pair from a segment of DNA which further alters the reading frame of codons. This also changes the protein product of that gene.

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