<prompt> Please answer with one of the option in the bracket. Write reasoning in between . Write answer in between .Q:A 20-year-old female presents to the emergency department with squeezing right upper quadrant pain worse after eating. She has a history of a microcytic, hypochromic anemia with target cells. Physical exam shows severe tenderness to palpation in the right upper quadrant and a positive Murphys sign. By genetic analysis a single point mutation is detected in the gene of interest. Despite this seemingly minor mutation, the protein encoded by this gene is found to be missing a group of 5 consecutive amino acids though the amino acids on either side of this sequence are preserved. This point mutation is most likely located in which of the following regions of the affected gene?? A: Exon, B: Intron, C: Kozak consensus sequence, D: Polyadenylation sequence, E: Transcriptional promoter,  <response>: This is a question about genetics that provides a clinical vignette of a 20-year-old female with right upper quadrant pain and a history of microcytic, hypochromic anemia with target cells. The key details are that genetic analysis revealed a single point mutation resulting in a 5 amino acid deletion in the encoded protein. The question asks where this point mutation is most likely located within the gene. The choices include exon, intron, Kozak consensus sequence, polyadenylation sequence, and transcriptional promoter. Since a point mutation resulting in an amino acid deletion would occur within the protein coding region, the mutation must be located within an exon. Introns, Kozak sequences, polyadenylation sequences, and promoters are non-coding regions that would not directly affect the amino acid sequence.A: Exon 