GENE DUPLICATION AS GRIST. “Evolution of pre-existing genes by duplication and subsequent divergence plays an important role in the emergence of novel genes. Depending on the organism and the duplication mechanism, the size of the region of DNA that is duplicated can vary from just a few bases up to whole chromosomes (aneuploidy) or genomes (polyploidy).”
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