Point Mutations
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Silent Mutation
does not change amino acids (change in 3rd position of a codon)
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Missense Mutation
change an amino acid in a protein
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Frameshift Mutation
shift the reading frame, altering subsequent codons
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Nonsense Mutation
changes an animo acid codon into a stop codon (causes a shortened "truncated" protein)