Answer the following question given this paragraph: 

Deleting or inserting a nitrogen base causes a frameshift mutation. All of the codons following the mutation are misread. This may be disastrous. To see why, consider this English-language analogy. Take the sentence “The big dog ate the red cat. ” If the second letter of “big” is deleted, then the sentence becomes: “The bgd oga tet her edc at. ” Deleting a single letter makes the rest of the sentence impossible to read.


Q: Deleting or inserting a nitrogen base causes what?


A:
a frameshift mutation