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Dictionary » N » Neutral mutation Neutral mutationneutral 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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Results from our forumNatural 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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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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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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Re: MutationsIf 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 ...
See entire post 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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