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Molecular evolution


Molecular evolution is the process of evolution at the scale of DNA, RNA, and proteins.
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Molecular evolution is the process of the genetic material in populations of organisms changing over time. The genetic material consists of DNA, long sequences of nucleotides in each individual organism.
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Molecular evolution underlies the more complicated kind of evolution that you think of when you think of apes to man.
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directed molecular evolution
A laboratory version of evolution at the molecular level that can produce "designer molecules.
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[For a brief intro into the theory behind this see Li and Graur, 1991, Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, Sinauer. There's a little more to it than I'm letting on.
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In the mid-1970s, Motoo Kimura formulated the neutral theory of molecular evolution, firmly establishing the importance of genetic drift as a major mechanism of evolution.
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Accumulation and analysis of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) have become an important component of genome research. EST data are used to identify gene products; study tissue differentiation, development, and molecular evolution; ...
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