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Interesting-Month-56 t1_irf4hu8 wrote

Everyone has some mutations in their genes. You have roughly 3 billion base pairs of DNA in your genome and the chance of a random mutation is high enough that it’s likely every conception involves at least one base pair substitution, segment snip, crossover, or flipped section.

Most mutations are not viable or not important - some of the genome is designed with redundant coding so that if there’s a base pair substitution, the same protein is encoded.

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