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Elisabeth Vrba co-defined the term "exaptation" to describe a form of change to these things. In one metaphor, these things are preserved by "survival machines—robot vehicles." Wilhelm Johannsen (20[1]0[1])rejected the prefix (0[1])"pan" when naming these things. A "[these things']-eye view" is exemplified by the underlying cause of the green-beard effect, in which these things (20[1]0[1])are pleiotropic. These things, (20[1])which (20[1])are physically real, can be either (*) paralogous or orthologous (10[3])if they are similar enough to be considered homologous. (0[2])Richard Dawkins (10[1]0[2])popularized (0[1])the notion (10[1]0[1])of these (10[2])things (0[1])being (0[1])"selfish." (10[5]0[1])Epistasis (10[6])occurs (10[2])among these things (10[1])whose versions (10[1])are called alleles. (10[1]0[1])For 10 points, (10[2]0[1])name (10[1])these basic coding (0[1])units (10[1])of (10[1])DNA. (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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