2 scientists conducted a study over 20 years where they cloned generations of mice to see what would happen; the researchers created a total of 58 generations before the project ended

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• higgsboson@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  By generation 57, the cloned mice had acquired over 3400 single-base changes relative to the starting mouse, whereas 62 generations of natural reproduction (in an inbred mouse strain) had accumulated 752.

  In other words, cloning caused 3.1 times more single-nucleotide mutations per generation than natural reproduction.

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• Innerworld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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