Silent mutations. Silent base changes are mutations which do not alter the amino acid. (Those which do are called replacement mutations.). Since they are less constrained than replacement sites, the geneticist Kimura had predicted, before DNA sequences were available, that silent changes would evolve more rapidly.
View is to the east over the Mississippi River. Port Allen is a city in and the parish seat of West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, United States. Port Allen is located between Interstate 10 and US Highway 190 on the West bank of the Mississippi River. The population was 5,180 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Notable people[edit] Rick Ward, III, state senator from District 17 since 2012 and attorney in Port Allen, resides in Maringouin, As of the census of 2000, there were 1,262 people, 421 households, and 327 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,691.3 people per square mile (649.7/kmÂ²).