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8. In a particular population, over the course of several dozen generations, an adenine was replaced by a guanineat a particular noncoding locus in the DNA base sequence. The evolutionary mechanism responsible for thischange was:A) genetic drift.B) migration.C) mutation.D) directional selection.E) disruptive selection.
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