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irga5000 [103]
3 years ago
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How do rates of mutation "power" molecular clocks?

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stepladder [879]3 years ago
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Molecular clocks use rates of mutation to measure evolutionary time.Mutations add up at a fairly constant rate in the DNA of species that evolved from a common ancestor. The more mutations that happened in each lineage, the greater is the differences between these lineages.
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