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mixas84 [53]
3 years ago
14

How can genetic mutations increase the variation in a population over time?

Biology
1 answer:
hichkok12 [17]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

The flow of individuals in and out of a population introduces new alleles and increases genetic variation within that population. Mutations are changes to an organism's DNA that create diversity within a population by introducing new alleles.

Explanation:

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