Muton
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A muton is the minimum length of DNA subject to mutation. The term is one of four words which were coined around the 1970s as replacements for the ambiguous "gene", this one coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene.
Mutations occur most frequently during DNA replication in cell division, the length of a muton depends upon the number of replication events it is subject to. Over a large enough number of replications a muton is equal to one nucleotide.
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