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.
Port Canaveral is a cruise, cargo and naval port in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is one of the busiest cruise ports in the world with 3.9 million cruise passengers passing through during 2014. As a deep water cargo port, it has a high volume of traffic. Over 3,000,000 short tons (2,700,000 t) of bulk cargo moves through each year. Common cargo includes cement, petroleum and aggregate.