# Comments on Gaugers Response to Hunt on RTE

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**Created:** [March 12, 2019, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/comments-on-gaugers-response-to-hunt-on-rte/5333 "2019-03-12T18:29:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/comments-on-gaugers-response-to-hunt-on-rte/5333/14 "2019-03-12T21:32:39Z")

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Great to see @Agauger posting here again.

I have a question regarding this …

> [@Gauger: Answering Art Hunt on Real Time Evolution](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/gauger-answering-art-hunt-on-real-time-evolution/5313/32):
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> … we included a mutation (hisO1242) (29) which removes the transcriptional terminator, thereby leading to derepressed transcription of the his operon even in the presence of histidine.

Is the hisO1242 mutation the kind of mutation that could occur naturally?

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