Abstract
MOLECULAR evolution consists of a sequence of events in which originally rare molecular mutants (DNA changes) spread into the species. Two important classes of mutations are nucleotide (or amino-acid) replacement and gene duplication.
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OHTA, T., KIMURA, M. Functional Organization of Genetic Material as a Product of Molecular Evolution. Nature 233, 118–119 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/233118a0
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