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(1995) Mexican studies in the history and philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Genetic mutation
the development of the concept and its evolutionary implications
Ana Barahona Echeverria
pp. 89-107
Nowadays, mutation means a change in the kind, number, or nucleotide sequence of the genetic material (Herskowitz, 1962), a heritable change in a chromosome (Watson, 1977), or a change in the genotype not due to a recombination of genes (Dobzhansky, 1970). Mutation is a term used in a general manner to explain the emergence of a character not inherited from ancestors, but heritable by the offspring.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-0109-4_7
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Barahona Echeverria, A. (1995)., Genetic mutation: the development of the concept and its evolutionary implications, in R. S. Cohen (ed.), Mexican studies in the history and philosophy of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 89-107.
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