How mutations can be beneficial

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Mutations can be beneficial, deleterious or neutral. How would you design an experiment to evaluate the relative proportion of the different kinds of spontaneous mutations in an organism (2)? Explain what data you would collect in such an experiment and how you would interpret it (2). What results would you expect to find (1)?

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