If DNA repair mechanisms were perfect, which of the following would MOST likely result?
A) Humans would live forever.
B) Evolution as we know it would stop because mutations are the only source of new genetic variation.
C) The rate of evolutionary change would dramatically increase.
D) Humans would stop aging, because aging is a collection of DNA mutations.
E) All of these choices are correct.
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