The unit factors that are being referred to in Gregor Mendel’s theories are now calledgenes. Accordingly, in adiploidorganism, the genes exist in alternative forms called alleles. These alleles are brought together infertilization. One set of alleles comes from the maternalgameteand the other set...
It should be obvious that genetic material not essential for a given environment, if inactivated or deleted, can decrease metabolic load, and so can allow more total growth in that given medium. But all such broken genes and deletions clearly involve a net loss of information, and there is ...