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Asymmetrical DNA replication promotes evolution: disparity theory of evolution.
Genetica - 1 Jan 1998
Furusawa M, Doi H
Abstract excerpt
Heredity is guaranteed by faithful DNA replication whereas evolution depends upon errors accompanying DNA replication. This contradiction existing between heredity and evolution cannot be resolved in an individual organism, but only in terms of a population, in that a delicate balance exists between wild type and variants in a population which is necessary for the survival of the species. Namely, there seems to...
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