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Changing mutation options for breeding
Breeding mutation is the amount of variation in the random selection of new
plant parameters from a normal (bell-shaped) distribution. The mean (average) of
the distribution is either the value from one parent or the blended value from
two parents. At 100% mutation the standard deviation of the normal distribution
is half of the mean. At 0% mutation there is no variation, and all offspring
have exactly the same value as the mean for each parameter.
To change mutation options,
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