Talk:Neutral mutation

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Most of those edits by me all in a row were minor edits. I'd change a typo, save, continue reading, find another typo. My bad.

[edit] Minor ?

"A neutral mutation may or may not affect the resulting protein, but will do so in a very minor fashion". I removed the part in bold, it's simply not true. A mutation could have a huge impact on an organism (destroying an organ), and it could still be neutral (if the organ is useless at the moment). - PhDP (talk) 22:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)