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Neutral mutation

neutral mutation

A mutation that has no selective advantage or disadvantage. Considerable controversy surrounds the question of whether such mutations can exist.


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Natural selection is proven wrong

... the trait back. Isolation... Today many variations within a genus are neutral as far as environmental advantage. Almost impossible to get a 100% neutral mutation, please enlighten me to these 'neutral mutations'. How do you explain speciation ...

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by futurezoologist
Mon Jun 29, 2009 12:16 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16356

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... only takes one of the original to bring the trait back. 3) Wherever the mutation took place there would be originals around no matter which population ... an environmental advantage. Today many variations within a genus are neutral as far as environmental advantage. 4) How do you explain speciation ...

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by AFJ
Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:01 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16356

Looking for answers/input.

... Randomness enters the picture in the production of the variation. The mutations that cause the variations occur randomly. Nature has no particular ... as you put it. Mutations blindly happen here and there. Most are neutral - neither good nor bad - and don't really cause much modification. ...

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by wbla3335
Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:36 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Looking for answers/input.
Replies: 9
Views: 1117

Re: Mutations

If a new mutation is neutral, that is, if it doesn't cause a change in amino acid or it causes a substitution that has no effect on ...

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by wbla3335
Fri Sep 12, 2008 7:15 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Mutations
Replies: 3
Views: 676

Some MCQs

... to genes which affect phentotype genetic markers have a high rate of mutation genetic markers are responsible for differences in phenotype every ... SNP markers (>300000) are required for fine-scale gene analysis the neutral theory of gene evolution implies that: the date of evolutionary divergence ...

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by biology_06er
Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:44 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Some MCQs
Replies: 3
Views: 1514
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