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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Fungal Genet Biol. 2014 Oct 13;78:59–64. doi: 10.1016/j.fgb.2014.10.004

Figure 3. Schemata demonstrating the rare probability of finding old cells.

Figure 3

The probability of finding a mutant phenotype (red) in a clonally expanding population is 1/1 regardless of the number of replications because the phenotype is inherited by all progeny. However, the probability of finding a cell with a specific age (20-generation-old cell in red) is rare, and is 1/106 in a population that has replicated 20 times.