Question

Which type of gene mutation would cause the more dramatic effect? out of Base Pair Substitution and Base Pair Insertions/Deletions

Answer 1

A mutation in a key gene

Answer 2

@biokid yes but would it cause a more dramatic efect?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

some genes are essential to survival , theese would be the key genes

Answer 5

@biokid out of Base pair substitution mutation and base pair insertions/deletions which would case the more dramatic effect?

Answer 6

insertion or deletion, because it would alter they whole code afterwards.
substitution could have less effects due to the degeneracy in coding for amino acids by several combinations of nucleotides

Answer 7

@aaronq , @biokid thank you both!