Monday 24 October 2011

3.32 Types of mutation

New alleles can be: beneficial, neutral or harmful.

Example of 


Beneficial mutation might be to improve an efficiency of an enzyme. 


Harmful mutation might be a production of an enzyme that does not work


If the mutation has no particular effect, we call it a neutralmutation
Although the neutrality may change due to environmental change which can lead to harmful or beneficial mutations.

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