GGG and GGC are codons for the amino acid, glycine. A mutation caused the insertion of a cytosine in place of the guanine during DNA replication. Over many generations the DNA changes so that the frequency of GGC is similar to that of GGG. What is this phenomenon called?





A. directional selection

B. bottleneck effect

C. stabilizing selection

D. adaptive variation

E. neutral variation


E. neutral variation

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