An individual with the genetic condition cystic fibrosis has CFTR protein with the amino acid histidine (at position 482), where the normal CFTR protein has arginine. (No other changes are observed in the protein.) This is the result of a _________ mutation.

Question

Select one:
a. Nonsense.
b. Silent.
c. Frameshift.
d. Missense.

Answer 1

silent

Answer 2

frameshift