Question

Sickle-cell anemia is caused when a mutation results in the replacement of glutamate with valine. Which type of mutation is observed here?

Answer 1

substitution

Answer 2

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Answer 3

We can call it a "substitution" mutation, or a "missense" mutation.

A "missense" mutation is where one amino acid is replaced by a different amino acid.

In this case,
glutamic acid was replaced by valine.