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# Pando's genetic mosaicism

Biology & ecology · 

## Why it looked like it would break the theory

Pando contains substantial genetic mosaicism rather than perfect genetic uniformity. If a whole requires one clean genetic identity, the clone appears to fragment into many identities.

## Why it failed

**The counterexample failed** because a whole need not have homogeneous parts. Mosaicism complicates one criterion of classification but does not remove the clone's organization, relationships, or all legitimate ways of identifying the whole.

Settled by [R4](https://dsrpevidence.org/resolution/4). Not yet published.

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