Defective protein
Biology
Level
2
True or False
A newly synthesized protein has been found to be defective. The defect is definitely caused by a mutation.
False
True
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1 solution
The defect may have been caused by a mistake in translation or transcription, neither of which are called mutations, which is a heritable difference between daughter and parent DNA.