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Environmental Pressure & Microevolution

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Is this an example of environmental pressure that causes microevolution?

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Agent Orange and Round up use two completely different chemicals.
To just drive the point home of how different they are.

Agent Orange:
1:1 mixture of

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Agent Orange was also contaminated with TCDD. Note that these are all chlorinated hydrocarbons.

Roundup:

320px-Glyphosate-2D-skeletal.png

Note that there is not a single chlorine atom in this molecule.
 
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Has there been any studies looking at the mechanism behind glyphosate resistance? Is it just a change in the enzyme it's suppose to inhibit?

EDIT - Found a nice paper all about it.

http://www.ask-force.org/web/HerbizideTol/Powles-Evolved-Glyphosate-2006.pdf

There are a number of different mechanisms that have evolved. Some involve site of action mutations where a single nucleotide is substituted. Another apparently involves duplication of the gene for the target protein. I have a sticky on the subject as an example of a beneficial mutation, which many creationists claim never happens. http://www.christianforums.com/t3309652/
 
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To just drive the point home of how different they are.

Agent Orange:
1:1 mixture of

200px-2%2C4-D.svg.png


200px-2%2C4%2C5-T.svg.png


Agent Orange was also contaminated with TCDD. Note that these are all chlorinated hydrocarbons.

Roundup:

320px-Glyphosate-2D-skeletal.png

Note that there is not a single chlorine atom in this molecule.

Nice pair of benzene rings in the AO. :D
 
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