What is a codon? What is silent mutation?

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A codon is a combination of a sequence of 3 nucleotide that is used by the ribosome to codes for a single amino acid. These sequence are present in mRNA molecule that is used as a template in translation process.

Silent mutation is a type of mutation that changes the codon in the mRNA to a different codon but the amino acid that it codes for remains the same as the DNA code is degenerate meaning a single amino acids can be coded by multiple codons.

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