Asymmetrical DNA replication promotes evolution: disparity theory of evolution.

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Asymmetrical DNA replication promotes evolution: disparity theory of evolution.

Genetica - 1 Jan 1998

Furusawa M, Doi H

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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 betw...

Topics

Animals
Biological Evolution
DNA
DNA Replication
Genetic Variation
Genome
Humans
Models, Genetic
Mutagenesis
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Replication Origin

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