5. Why are insertions and deletions - sometimes called "frameshift mutations

particularly dangerous?

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Cristina Parker

21 February, 13:44

5. Why are insertions and deletions - sometimes called "frameshift mutations

particularly dangerous?

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Precious Fitzgerald · Answer 1

It changes the reading of subsequent codons and, therefore, alters the entire amino acid sequence that follows the mutation, insertions and deletions are usually more harmful than a substitution in which only a single amino acid is altered.

5. Why are insertions and deletions - sometimes called "frameshift mutationsparticularly dangerous?

5. Why are insertions and deletions - sometimes called "frameshift mutations

particularly dangerous?