Question

A DNA segment is changed from-AAT.TAG-to-AAA.TAG-. This is an?

Answer 1

What do you think?

Answer 2

yeah i thi thats it because on my paper i have point mtaion , inversion frameshift mutation and deletion . which one u think it is ?

Answer 3

I think it's point mutation because only a single letter has changed.

Answer 4

Aroub is absolutly right. The term 'point mutation' applies to the actual act of changing the base. The resulting DNA sequences differ by one nucleotide and are most commonly called 'single nucleotide polymorphisms.' Or SNPs.