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Chapter 28: Q17P (page 1080)

Explain why natural selection has favored the instability of RNA.

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Natural selection has favored the instability of RNA (ribonucleic acid) by controlling the gene in vivo helps to regulate gene expression.

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Introduction to natural selection

  • Natural selection is a differential way of survival and reproduction of individuals due to changes in phenotype. It is a major evolutionary process, a genetic mutation that symbolizes population density from generation to generation.
  • Throughout human life, their genomes interact with their environment to produce genetic diversity. The genome environment includes molecular biology in a cell, other cells, other people, humans, animal species, and the environment.
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Explanation

  • Genetic expression and translation are influenced by the stability of messenger RNA (mRNA) in almost all living things.
  • RNA vulnerability of the expression by degrading mRNA (messenger RNA) degradation.
  • If RNA is at risk of degradation and is stable, translation will continue even when the coded proteins are not needed by the cell.

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