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Originally Posted by Thor
I didn't say that, GGG did.  |
No. You said it. But anyways, GGG has clarified for you.
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Originally Posted by GGG
first mutation is not a big scary word.
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Agreed, not a scary word.
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Originally Posted by GGG
We know their are mutations because some weeds are resistant to gysopahte and other weeds are not. Given that the majority are not it makes sense to assume that the glysophate resistance is a mutation of a gene within the weed.
When you spray these weeds with glysophate you kill all the ones without the mutation allowing the ones with the resistant gene to propagate.
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Yes but we have no idea if this trait was already randomly present in some plants before intense glyphosate applicatoon or was a result of a mutative adaptation by some plants as a result of it.
And agreed, what we see now is a multitude of these plants because external selection pressure selects for this particular trait/mutation.
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Originally Posted by GGG
So I should have said accelerates the propagation of the plants with glysophate resistant genes but I didn't realize people would be so pendantic.
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Yes, agreed. Selection pressure accelerates the propagation of these plants.
There was nothing "pendantic"
about it. It was a request for clarification of a statement that obviously confused others.
Can we not agree that there is a significant difference between saying something accelerates the abundance and distribution of an organism with a particular trait and something accelerating mutations within an organism? Not pedantic at all.