Which statement about mutations is false?
A) A silent mutation results in no change in the amino acid sequence of a protein.
B) According to the neutral theory of molecular evolution, most substitution mutations are selectively neutral and accumulate through genetic drift.
C) A base substitution mutation in the third codon position is more likely to be neutral than a substitution at the first or second codon position.
D) Nonsynonymous mutations are virtually always deleterious to the organism.
E) The rate of fixation of neutral mutations is equal to the mutation rate and is independent of population size.
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Q170: Mutations in the third position of codons
Q171: The central hypothesis of the neutral theory
Q172: Suppose that the size of a population
Q173: A DNA substitution does not change the
Q174: Consider the great diversity of genome size
Q176: A missense substitution is the same as
Q177: In a eukaryote, one would expect to
Q178: Which observation is contrary to the neutral
Q179: Which statement about synonymous substitutions is false?
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Q180: Refer to the table ![]()
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