Calculus: Early Transcendentals
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Author: James Stewart
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A certain highly mutable gene has a 1.0% chance of mutating each time a cell divides. Suppose that there are 15 cell divisions between each pair of generations. What is the chance that the gene mutates in one generation, during the course of those 15 cell divisions? If there were 100 such genes, about how many would have mutated in one generation?
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