SECONDING OF EXISTING GENES. “Muller predicted that a new duplicate copy of a gene could acquire a novel function and be preserved in the genome, and further that “there remains no reason to doubt the application of the dictum ‘all life from pre-existing life’ and ‘every cell from a pre-existing cell’ to the gene: ‘every gene from a pre-existing gene.’”
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