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bezimeni [28]
4 years ago
12

**98 POINTS!!!!!!** Explain how a mutation can change the DNA but not change the amino acid sequence.

Biology
2 answers:
Reil [10]4 years ago
8 0

A nonsense mutation is also a change in one DNA base pair. Instead of substituting one amino acid for another, however, the altered DNA sequence prematurely signals the cell to stop building a protein. This type of mutation results in a shortened protein that may function improperly or not at all.

Alisiya [41]4 years ago
5 0

Silent mutations cause a change in the sequence of bases in a DNA molecule, but do not result in a change in the amino acid sequence of a protein

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