What is the fate of most new mutations?

Question

What is the fate of most new mutations?

Answer 1

becoming immune to all vaccines/medications to where they no longer work. Which would cause death. Its the normal balance. The world population is out of whack because of overpopulation and low death-rate. An epidemic is nature's way to keep a natural balance, and it will happen.

Answer 2

well, many of them die

Answer 3

Indifference.

It's too late in the night to do the actual math, but mutations occur/aren't repaired more frequently in inactive DNA - junk and pseudogenes.

Because of degenerated code, a good part of these mutations ends up coding for the same amino acid. Even when the amino acid actually changes, it could change to a similar one so that the protein does not work significantly better or worse.

Add to this that a good number of mutations occur in somatic cells, or in gametes that never form a zygote, and the proportion of 'harmful' or 'beneficial' mutations becomes increasingly small with each factor your consider.

But, I repeat, one should sit down and do the math.

Answer 4

What do u mean mutations? As in genes?

Answer 5

Death :D