A nonsense mutation:
A) changes the identity of one amino acid in a polypeptide chain.
B) shifts the reading frame of a messenger RNA.
C) is usually due to a nucleotide substitution in the third position of a codon.
D) changes a codon for an amino acid into a codon for chain termination.
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