Which method would be the most powerful approach to isolating a single mutant from a population of billions?

The most powerful approach to isolating a single mutant from a population of billions is positive selection.

The most powerful approach to isolating a single mutant from a population of billions is positive selection.

Further Explanation:

Positive selection is a kind of a process by which new genetic variants add in a population. Positive selection is also called as Darwinian selection. Positive selection is a main mechanism that Darwin predicts as giving rise to evolution and specific molecular genetics that are very hard to detect. Pioneering is a scientist who worked by Nielsen and Yang has provided a very powerful method for detect the positive selection at a sequence level

Mutations are difficult to identify and to analyze because the deleterious and neutral mutation predominate them in the frequency rate. To analyze a mutant from a very huge population can be done by positive selection. They detect single mutant by analyzing the frequency and nature of an allele diversity in a population.

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School  

Subject: Biology

Topic: Positive selection

Keywords:

Positive selection, Darwinian selection, Nielsen, yang, detect, frequency, neutral mutation, allele, diversity, analyze, population, evolution, method, scientist, pioneering.