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As they have said, DNA is made of pairs of nucleotide bases. Each nucleotide is composed of a deoxyribose sugar, a nitrogenous base, and a single phosphate. They differ by having one of 4 different nitrogenous bases, adenine, guanine, cytosine, or thymine. If by asking what is the smallest...

The last paper answers the question exactly.

I did not know that. So in the molecule H2 there is no neutrons present, only 2 protons and 2 electrons?

Yes I agree that evolution "before" a bottle necking event is most likely always the case. I would argue it is very hard to test that though. The study i am talking about used a fresh sample of population organisms everytime, and everytime the same sequence of mutations occurred over the 30...

On a side note to these answers, I recently attended a seminar from a Bio-Physicist at Rice University doing work on a single celled eucaryotic organism. He was presenting results from a series of experiments his lab had done. Briefly, a environment was created where all variables, (ie. temp...