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Amino Change Code Acid Substitution Mutation Affect Due

Front Why might a substitution mutation not have an affect?
Back Due to the genetic code being degenerate and the amino acids being able to be coded by more than 1 triplet. A change in a triplet may not change the amino acid as the change may still code for the same amino acid

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