Muller's ratchet

English

Etymology

Named after Hermann Joseph Muller. See ratchet effect.

Proper noun

Muller's ratchet

  1. (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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