Submitted by soygang t3_xy2vlm in askscience
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.
soygang OP t1_irf6ctb wrote
Thank you
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