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A mutation causes a sequence of DNA that has the nucleotides TTG to be changed to TCG. The resulting protein has a different sequence of amino acids. Which type of mutation is this?

frameshift

missense

silent

nonsense

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
missense

Explanation: TTG (leucine) changed to TCG (serine) alters one amino acid but does not create a stop codon or shift the reading frame, so it is a missense mutation.