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A polypeptide has the following amino ac...

A polypeptide has the following amino acid sequence
Met-Ser-Pro-Arg-Leu-Glu-Gly
In a mutant the amino acid sequence of this polypeptide was found to be
Met-Ser-Ser-Arg-Leu-Glu-Gly
What is the type of mutation that occurred in the reading frame of its DNA?

A

Silent mutation

B

Nonesense mutation

C

Mis-sense mutation

D

Frame-shift mutation

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