Question

When a DNA sequence is being replicated, a cytosine base is replaced by a thymine base. This results in one wrong amino acid being attached to a protein during translation. What type of mutation is described?(1 point)
Responses

Inversion
Inversion

Substitution
Substitution

Insertion
Insertion

Deletion

Answer 1

The type of mutation described is **Substitution**. This is because a single base (cytosine) is replaced by another base (thymine), leading to a potential change in the corresponding amino acid during protein translation.