Muller's ratchet
English
Etymology
Named after Hermann Joseph Muller. See ratchet effect.
Proper noun
- (evolutionary genetics) The process by which the genomes of an asexual population accumulate deleterious mutations in an irreversible manner; proposed as a theory to explain the evolution of sex.
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