An accurate analogy of Evolution by Natural selection

Yeah I remember it, never came back on it though.I also remember that your source was pretty old, and that the more recent research on the mutation was that it was not a 'by chance' simple frame shift mutation.Yomo, T., Urabe, I. and Okada, H., No stop codons in the antisense strands of the genes for nylon oligomer degradation, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 89:3780—3784, 1992quote from Yomo: If it is indeed a preexisting mechanism that was responsible for this mutation, then it was not random as Ohmo had suggested back in 1984.You also had used Shannon's information theory and applied it to genetics, something shannon himself warned not to do.

How so? The mechanism for mutations is pre-existing as well, being the imperfect copying mechanism of DNA. Does this mean ALL mutations aren't random either? I'd like a source for that, please.

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I'll check for the source, but it probably won't be 'genetics' but rather 'biological systems'.A mutation is totally random because it is based on the random movements of the atoms-electrons in a molecule. If a mutation turns out to be non-random, then it means that there is an underlying mechanism making it non-random. (such as transposase genes)

There are both random and non-random causes of mutation. The transposase enzyme is one cause of mutations, but it is not necessarily non-random. According to the Wikipedia article on transposons, some types move specific DNA to specific targets, while others act more randomly.--Percy