
Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)
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Author: Elaine N. Marieb, Katja N. Hoehn
Publisher: PEARSON
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Which of the following is a reason that the low error rate of DNA replication is important to evolution?
A. Replication with a high error rate is likely to kill the cell.
B. Fixing replication errors provides a cellular role for mismatch repair enzymes. C. Rare errors are the source of variation.
D. Most mutations have no effect on phenotype .
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