Answer the following question: Answer the following question given this paragraph: Deleting or inserting a nitrogen base causes a frameshift mutation. All of the codons following the mutation are misread. This may be disastrous. To see why, consider this English-language analogy. Take the sentence "The big dog ate the red cat. " If the second letter of "big" is deleted, then the sentence becomes: "The bgd oga tet her edc at. " Deleting a single letter makes the rest of the sentence impossible to read. Q: Deleting or inserting a nitrogen base causes what? A:

Possible answers: [i] a placentation mutation; [ii] a degenerative mutation; [iii] a photoinhibition mutation; [iv] a frameshift mutation;
Answer:
[iv]