Mutations

"Mutations" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Exposure to radiation causes susceptibility to mutations.

Because the white genes are mutations of the genes of the original men of color — and males are mutations of the original females — we can finally answer the question Is God black? The answer is Yes, She is.

It seems that the origin of the mutations is in the consumption of contaminated water.

Scientists are now using a genetic approach to estimate the ages of corals. The method determines when a coral egg and sperm originally met to form the genome of a coral colony. The researchers then track the number of mutations that have accumulated in the genome since that time. Because mutations tend to arise at a relatively constant rate, researchers can estimate the approximate age of the coral genomes in their study.

Many of the most concerning variants share the same mutations, even when they appear on different continents. That may mean that the virus can mutate in only a limited number of ways.

Many of the most concerning variants share the same mutations.

"Maybe this is it," Gronvall said. "Maybe it's not possible for the virus to have entirely different mutations that we haven't seen yet and still function."

Could a microbe be elevated to microbiologist status by gene duplication followed by random mutations and natural selection?

According to Tom, the theory of evolution by random mutations and natural selection is not convincing for several reasons, the most important of which is the existence of DNA. Among other unacceptable points, Tom adds, this theory claims that the human mind – Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Shakespeare, Descartes, Da Vinci, Mozart, Einstein, Darwin himself – evolved from the mind of an unidentified primate, which would be our ancestor.

The goddess Natural Selection blindly and unconsciously, but amazingly creatively, chooses random mutations produced at long intervals by the god Chance.

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