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Question 1

Is fitness or firstness more important?

Answer 1

You just have to be fit enough to survive, being first to nutrients is more important

Question 2

Are gradients important?

Answer 2

Yes, allows mutants to thrive for long enough to mutate more

Question 3

Which were more fit: highly mutated or less mutated isolates?

Answer 3

Less mutated

Question 4

What does a compensatory mutation do?

Answer 4

Regains grow rate lost from survival mutation