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The effect is exponential, and a 5 °C rise in body temperature equals a roughly 150% rise in metabolic rate.
The values of m are distributed roughly symmetrically around zero, meaning that the average neutrality increases as often as it decreases with distance from the reference sequence.
Similar results are likely to be observed when these methods are applied to large numbers of sequences if we assume that the sample of 40 proteins roughly reflects the distribution of proteins seen in a genome.
However, one of the most surprising outcomes of genome research is that roughly 20-40% of genes in newly sequenced genomes do not have statistically significant matches to functionally annotated sequences and are annotated as 'hypothetical proteins' [ 4].
Since World War II, annual growth in GDP per capita has averaged roughly 2 percent.