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| Quote (Daniel Smith @ Oct. 14 2007,10:20) | [EDIT]
Speaking of predictions, I have another one for you:
It's my hypothesis that random mutations are only neutral or deleterious - never advantageous. All advantageous mutations are non-random and are therefore experimentally repeatable and will occurr too rapidly to be random.
Therefore, I predict that anytime Acromobacter guttatus Sp. K172 is subjected to an environment where it must consume nylon to survive, the same frame shift will occur, resulting in Flavobacterium Sp. KI72.
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Better, but you still need numbers. Specifically, "rapidly" is not meaningful, because mutation rates are calculated per individual per generation.
What does your hypothesis predict if a different bacterial species is selected on nylon?
1) Will multiple selections give the same result, and/or
2) Will the enzymes that evolved be the orthologs of the ones that evolved in Achromobacter?
P.S. Did you check out the mouse vs. rat sequences yet?
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