Thus, all mutations that affect the fitness of future generations are agents of evolution. Mutations are essential to evolution. Every genetic feature in every organism was, initially, the result ...
(Mutations do create a minor amount of change ... Without the need for males, every clonal individual passes a full set of identical genes onto the next generation. In addition, a single female ...
Clonal hematopoiesis develops when a single HSC acquires growth-promoting mutations and begins to churn out many, many clones of itself. Eventually, these mutated blood cells become over ...
According to the classical clonal evolution theory ... triggered either by inflammation or Apc mutation. By analyzing a staggering 260,922 single cells from normal, inflamed, and neoplastic ...