A sequence of nucleotides found in the DNA of house cats Felis catus codes for...

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A sequence of nucleotides found in the DNA of house cats Felis catus codes for tail length A mutation in the gene can result in a shortened tail If a mutation is caused by inserting a nucleotide in a DNA sequence how will the mutation affect the DNA sequence or the re sulting protein A B C D The mutation will cause the reading frame of the DNA to shift resulting in different codons following the insertion mutation The protein will contain one changed amino acid but the rest of the amino acids in the protein will remain unchanged The DNA will contain one fewer nucleotide than the original DNA which will cause a change in one amino acid in the protein There would be no effect on the resulting protein due to the sequence being read in mount of three nucleotider

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