Originally posted by lee_merrill
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1) Quote their claim.
2) Quote their cited source
3) Note the glaring discrepancy.
Soskine and Tawfik actually wrote this: "approximately 40% of mutations reduce or completely abolish the activity of the mutated protein"
Approximately 40% is not half. A protein having reduced activity is not necessarily damaging; it may be deleterious, neutral or even beneficial depending upon circumstances.
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