What is the difference between a missense mutation and a silent mutation..

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Missense mutation comes under point mutation. In which single a single nucleotide gets changed which codes for the different aminoacids or simply the change in one pair of DNA. It is called non - synonymous mutations.

In silent mutation there is a change occur in DNA codon which never effect the amino acid translation and simply there is no effect or change in phenotype of a particular individual.

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