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Mutation in axillary buds of trees overcoming self-incompatability?
I seem to recall from either reading or lecture that there have been instances of trees that are self-incompatible accumulating enough mutations in an axillary bud that the resulting branch was able ...
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Have there been attempts to identify Chomsky's “language mutation” in humans?
I'm not versed in either biology or linguistics so please forgive any naiveties I may commit.
I've learned that Noam Chomsky thinks that language is a result of a single genetic mutation in humans. ...
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Which bacteria have the highest mutation rate?
From my reading on M. tuberculosis, I know that this organism has a pretty high mutation rate due to uncorrected sloppy replication, which leads to a high rate of development of spontaneous resistance ...
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Number of beneficial mutations cataloged?
I can see from Wikipedia that there are possibly thousands of harmful mutations that have been cataloged and linked to disease. There are also unnumbered neutral mutations. But, does anyone know how ...
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Predicting progeny of recessive mutations using recombination
I was asked this question on a test and got it wrong, but I'd like to know how to do it. The answers are shown in the blanks below:
You are studying two recessive mutations in the fruit fly D.
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