Which enzyme will be produced in a cell where a nonsense mutation is present in the lac operon?

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Which enzyme will be produced in a cell where a nonsense mutation is present in the lac operon?

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In genetics, the mutation in which a sense codon that corresponds to one of the twenty amino acids is changed to a chain terminating codon, i.e., UAA, UAG, UGA, is known as nonsense mutation.

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The structure of lac operon is as follows:

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