Answer:
<u>D) the nucleic acid (either DNA or RNA)</u>
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Explanation:
Phages, or bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria.They have varying shapes, and sizes, and may contain one of two kinds of nucleic acid; these are RNA and DNA.
The nucleic acids are made up of nucleotides. These are genetic storage biomolecules made up of the monomers ribonucleic acid (RNA) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).
<span>Missense mutation
</span>Mutation can be defined as the permanent alteration
in the nucleotide sequence of the genome of a virus, organisms or other genetic
materials. However, a change in single nucleotide that result to a codon that
code for different amino acid can be refers to as Missense mutation.