The human vertebral column is also referred to as the <u><em>spine or spinal column.</em></u>
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The<u> body / spinous process </u>of a typical vertebra forms the rounded, central portion that faces anteriorly in the human vertebral column.
The <em>human vertebral column</em> is made of up a group or collection of bones called the<u><em> vertebrae</em></u>.
In humans, we have a total of <u><em>33 vertebrae. </em></u>
In <u>males </u>humans, the vertebrae are said to be <u>71 cm long</u> while in <u>females</u> it is <u>61 cm long</u>.
Therefore, the<u> body / spinous process </u>of a typical vertebra forms the rounded, central portion that faces anteriorly in the human vertebral column.
The deletion of a single base is the mutation that would most likely impair the production of a protein, because each aminoacid is coded by a triplet of three base pairs. So when one of the bases is deleted, the whole series of triplets is altered so the whole series of aminoacids in the protein would now be different.
