Not all mutations lead to changed in amino acid sequence of polypeptides. Explain why.

Amino acids are the building bricks of life. Redundency occured with in their coding however. A single Amino acid may be coded for by more than one codon (a sequence of three nucleic acids) and therfore mutations may lead to a codon that generates the same amino acid.

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