Evolution by Gene DuplicationThe creation of life based on the inherent complementality between purine and pyrimidine bases; Mutation and the conservative nature of natural selection; Why gene duplication; Mechanisms of gene duplication; Evolution of verbrate genomes. |
Contents
The Rate of Evolution and the Importance of Isolation | 1 |
Chromosomes of Eukaryotes | 15 |
Forbidden Mutations | 26 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accompany the process acrocentrics alanine alleles amino acid amino acid sequence amphibians ancestor anticodon appears autosomes base pair base sequence base substitution Biol centromere changes Chapter chromatids chromosome cistron codon coli contains dehydrogenase diploid enzyme evolution fish forbidden mutations function gene duplication gene product genetic genome H-chains heavy-chains hemoglobin heterochromatin heterozygote heterozygous advantage histidine histones homologous homozygous horse immunoglobulin karyotype linkage lysine mammalian mechanism meiosis messenger RNA metacentric million years ago molecules mouse mutation rate natural selection neutral mutations NH2-CH-COOH nucleic acid nucleolar organizer occurred OHNO peptide chain placental mammals polymorphism polypeptide chain Proc process of speciation produced protein redundancy regulatory gene reptiles ribosomal RNA Robertsonian fusions self-replication separate gene loci single gene locus somatic cells species specified Spring Harbor Symposia strand structural cistron structural genes subunits synthesis tandem duplication tetraploid tolerable mutations transfer RNA tyrosine unequal crossing-over vertebrates wild-type