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Members of a biological species vary. We acknowledge as a “variation” a character in an organism that is different from the character seen in most other members of its species. Hence the organism would be called a “variant.” The difference may be in number, or in arrangement, or in an individual character itself. Long before the nature of mutation at the DNA level was understood, Bateson suggested that these distinctions were fundamental.
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Forsdyke, D.R. (2011). Mutation. In: Evolutionary Bioinformatics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7771-7_7
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