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Why mutation is not as random as we thought

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Mutation Rate and Natural Selection

Mutation rate and natural selection are not two distinct evolutionary forces. Different parts of the geno mutate at different rates depending on how important they are. The plant that the team studied has a mutation rate of roughly one mutation per genome, per generation.

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