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Medical AI Inquiry: You were designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.
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Silent mutations occurs because codon is :
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The correct answer is  Degenerate Silent mutations occurs because codon is degenerate. Degeneracy/Redundancy is a propey of codons that each amino acid is having more than one codons. Silent mutations means a codon is replaced by another codon, which is coding for same amino acid.