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Can Mutation Rates Evolve in Laboratory Experiments? Briefly Describe an Experiment

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Can mutation rates evolve in laboratory experiments? Briefly describe an experiment that researchers performed to investigate this,and state whether the mutation rate did evolve,and if so,whether it evolved to become higher or lower.


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Two-Tailed Hypothesis Test

A statistical analysis method where the significance of the observed data can be in either tail of the distribution, testing for either too high or too low outcomes relative to the hypothesized values.

Critical Value

A threshold in a statistical test that a test statistic must exceed to reject the null hypothesis.

T-Distribution

A probability distribution that is used to estimate population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Population Variances

The measure of dispersion that quantifies how much the values of a population differ from the population mean.

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