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Author: Cummings
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Chapter 11, Problem 13QP

A frameshift mutation is caused by a:

  1. a. nucleotide substitution
  2. b. three-base insertion
  3. c. premature stop codon
  4. d. one-base insertion
  5. e. two-base deletion
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