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#Question id: 3945


About 30% of point mutations (substitutions) that occur in coding regions of DNA are harmless. Why?

#Unit 3. Fundamental Processes
  1. because only 30% of the DNA is actually coding for amino acids

  2. because only 70% of the DNA is actually coding for amino acids

  3. because most amino acids are specified by several codons that differ at the third position

  4. all of the above