Actin exists as: 

a globular monomer -G-actin 

a filamentous polymer- F-actin

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Fate of duplicate gene 

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If the duplicate is redundant and does not provide a fitness benefit, it will be lost by deletion or the accumulation of loss of-function mutations.

A second fate is that a duplicate can simply retain its original function.

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A third fate that can befall a duplicated gene is neofunctionalization. Here the duplicate evolves a novel biological function. 

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Duplicate gene and its parental copy can subfunctionalize so that each carries out only some of the roles that the ancestral gene performed. 

Ex- a duplicate of the β-hemoglobin locus is expressed in the fetus. 

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The loci that encode hemoglobins are members of a gene family, which is a set of loci that arose by duplication.

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Molecular Variation (Rate) - Which is the number of substitutions taking place per nucleotide site per year