Transmission fidelity applies to any mutation that is passed to another organism, and it does not reach a 100% expected or actual real-world statistical success rate.
Sure it does. Surely you can imagine a single mutation which is passed on from one organism to one of its offspring.
808 posted on 04/18/2002 12:58:02 PM PDT by Nebullis
Sure, that's 100%, but you're only citing a single instance of a mutation successfully appearing in future offspring (a useless statistic because it is a tautology by definition), not the overall batting average for all mutations in a species surviving and propagating, which is NOT 100%.
The expected value for all mutations (or even the limited subset of "neutral" mutations) to be propagated is simply not 100%.
809 posted on 04/18/2002 1:21:14 PM PDT by Southack