Assume that a base addition occurs early in the coding region of a gene. Is the protein product of this gene expected to have more or fewer (state which) altered amino acids compared with the original gene with a base deletion late in the coding region?

During translation, tRNA (transfer RNA) molecules match a sequence of three nucleotides in the mRNA to a specific amino acid, which is added to the growing polypeptide chain. RNA primers are not used in protein synthesis. RNA primers are only needed to initiate a new strand of DNA during DNA replication.