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Silent Mutation
For Silent Mutation we have terms and definitions in 2 topics. The topics are Huntingtons Disease and Microbiology.
Silent Mutation (Huntingtons Disease) 
A point mutation that has no effect on the organism involved.
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Silent Mutation (Microbiology)
A nucleotide substitution (never a single deletion or insertion) which does not alter the amino acid sequence of an encoded protein due to the degeneracy of the genetic code. Such mutations usually involve the third base (wobble position) of codons.
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