When The DNA Gets Mutated

When The DNA Gets Mutated
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Genetic mutations come in flavors of catastrophe. A simple deletion? Meh. A frameshift deletion? Pure chaos.

The meme brilliantly illustrates how a single nucleotide deletion (left) is nothing compared to a frameshift deletion (right). When you delete a single base and shift the entire reading frame, every subsequent codon gets misread—turning your carefully crafted protein into molecular gibberish.

It's like accidentally deleting one letter in your code and suddenly your program doesn't print "Hello World" but instead launches nuclear missiles. No wonder SpongeBob is having an existential crisis.

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