In some cases, this is in fact a useful way to look at it.
The DDC model[0] proposes that one of the drivers of evolutionary change is polyploidy, where after an organism has multiple copies of the genome, genes are free to drift into new functions.
An organism with four copies of a gene instead of the usual two is more rad-hardened than the basal non-ploid organism.
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In some cases, this is in fact a useful way to look at it.
The DDC model[0] proposes that one of the drivers of evolutionary change is polyploidy, where after an organism has multiple copies of the genome, genes are free to drift into new functions.
An organism with four copies of a gene instead of the usual two is more rad-hardened than the basal non-ploid organism.
[0]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-duplication-degenera...