* Over evolutionary time-spans, proteins mutate: i.e. their primary structure becomes altered.
* Such alterations are caused by mutations in the genes (linear sequences of nucleotides) which encode them.
Point mutations
- the substitution of one amino acid for another.
Deletion mutation
- a protein sequence may lose some of its amino acids.
Insertion mutation
- a protein sequence may have amino acids inserted.
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