Originally Posted by LindaLou
Before you make comments like this, you might try learning about some basic genetics, and you might also read up on what Mendel discovered in his experiments.
Before you make assumptions about what people don't know, you... Well, what silly insults would be left to post?

Nevermind...

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The definition you will see of a mutation, repeated thousands of times over is,

A mutation is a permanent change in the DNA sequence of a gene.

So short-sighted...

A mutation is a permanent change in the DNA sequence of a gene.

If changes are permanent, how can evolution be possible. Permanence is antithetical to change.

By this definition, the only mutations that qualify are deletion mutations. Once information is lost, it cannot be recovered... Unless the mutant is bred with a non-mutant, and the offspring inherit the undamaged information, of course.

Your misdefinition actually raises an interesting question: what does it take for information to be permanently lost?


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