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For the original experiment to proceed without the possibility that RC raised, the initial population must have been from a single bacterium whose genome had been sequenced. Experiment would have been much harder, unnecessary and probably impossible with a random starting population. The mutations were documented by comparing the sequence of the DNA of the progenitor and progeny. Mismatches between the two sequences could only arise from mutations.