Okay if you replace your CPU with a faster one, it will still run, but if you replace your CPU with a capacitor... well that's not going to work out too well for the machine's computation abilities.
Nice way to illustrate missense and nonsense mutations. Gonna keep it in mind for a future post! Will not credit you.
:p
Interesting thing, mutations, it's the enabler of evolution, but most of the time it's harmful. If everything copied itself perfectly we would remain stagnant and die off as soon as the environment changed. Diseases is the price we pay for adaptability, in a way.
I just always thought this is fascinating...
Well much of the time it's silent. Silent mutations occur all of the time, masked by the repeated codons corresponding to the same trans.
True.