Teacher: Given a scientific passage and an answer, generate a question for the given answer.
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Passage: A frameshift mutation is a deletion or insertion of one or more nucleotides that changes the reading frame of the base sequence. Deletions remove nucleotides, and insertions add nucleotides. Consider the following sequence of bases in RNA:. Answer: nucleotides.
Solution: A frameshift mutation is a deletion or insertion of one or more of what that changes the reading frame of the base sequence?
Reason: The science passage defines frame mutation and the main compoment here is nucleotides. Hence the generated question is apt.

Now, solve this instance: Passage: Both alpha and beta decay change the number of protons in an atom's nucleus, thereby changing the atom to a different element. In alpha decay, the nucleus loses two protons. In beta decay, the nucleus either loses a proton or gains a proton. In gamma decay, no change in proton number occurs, so the atom does not become a different element. Answer: protons
Student:
Both alpha and beta decay change the number of what in an atom's nucleus?