The point of the Deleterious Mutation Hypothesis was that

Last updated: 8/7/2022

The point of the Deleterious Mutation Hypothesis was that individuals which have a genotype will be removed from the reproducing population via sex (if the recessive mutation is deleterious) and thus the fitness of the population will not deteriorate and may improve over time. Homozygous Dominant Heterozygous Homozygous Recessive Insertion/Deletion 4 points