All 3 Uses of
mutation
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- But despite doing everything slowly and having not changed much in two hundred million years, tuatara have a faster rate of molecular mutation than any other known animal.
p. 177.5 *mutation = changes in the genes
- What happened to slow down molecular mutation?
p. 177.7mutation = changes in the genes that determine biological traits
- Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything.
p. 257.9
Definition:
a change in the genes that determine biological traits; or the result of the change