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Genetic code is highly redundant. A few flipped characters will therefore probably not affect the produced protein much.
by LarvaFX 6y ago
Genetic code is highly redundant. A few flipped characters will therefore probably not affect the produced protein much.
- shellfishgene 6y agoI wouldn't call it "highly" redundant, more than two thirds of mutations will cause an amino acid change.
- thamer 6y agoIt's highly redundant when there are 2 strands, as is the case with DNA. RNA has a tendency to accumulate mutations quickly, as evidenced by the many hundreds of variants of SARS-CoV-2 that have already been sequenced (and that's with only ~30,000 bases).