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KerryGeilerSamerotte
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Evolutionary cell biology. The molecular mechanisms that shape evolutionary outcomes. Yeast. Science outreach.
Aug 28, 2020 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
If pleiotropy is simply when one mutation influences many traits, how come so many nuanced definitions of it exist? 1/17 One answer is that it is not easy to count traits. For example, consider cell circumference and area. Are those two traits or one? For a harder example, consider the mutation that makes tomatoes ripen uniformly and also makes them taste bad. Sounds like pleiotropy, right? 2/17