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... of the ones you said you agreed with. The term mutation can refer to any process that changes the genetic information in the genome, including DNA insertions, deletions and rearrangements. And as already discussed ‒ rearrangements are random as well. Or to avoid giving the wrong impression, they ...

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... Natural selection is NOT random! The term mutation can refer to any process that changes the genetic information in the genome, including DNA insertions, deletions and rearrangements. Genetic variation is generated continuously by the mutational process, but its persistence in the genome is ...

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The length doesn't matter much. You can easily do deletions or insertions with homologous recombination. During recombination when: Original Segment A = T-A-T-C-T-T-T-T- A-G-G-T-A -G-C-A Engineer Segment B = T-A-T-C-T-T-T-T -C-C-C-C-C- G-C-A The sequences ...

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... am writing a program involving the rates of specific mutations, and I was wondering if anyone had a good source for the rates of point mutations, insertions, and deletions in humans. Thank you very much.

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The length doesn't matter much. You can easily do deletions or insertions with homologous recombination.

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