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Given a scientific passage and an answer, generate a question for the given answer.

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?
Why? The science passage defines frame mutation and the main compoment here is nucleotides. Hence the generated question is apt.

New input: Passage: But mining for gold is a slow, dirty, and dangerous process. Not everyone owns a gold mine in both the ancient Egyptian society and during the Roman Empire, the gold mines were the property of the state, not an individual or group. So there were few ways for most people to legally get any gold for themselves. Answer: state
Solution:
In ancient egypt gold mines were the property of what?