Mutations

And it also gave us an idea of why certain mutations would cause resistance and how you might design better antibiotics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The mutations built up over time before being emphasized in breeding, certainly, but as usual it's a little more complicated than Dawkins likes to pretend, though he does note that it's a two-step argument -- that the mutation rate of surviving mutations is high enough and that selection is fast enough to bring them out. ❋ Unknown (2009)

No one claims that multiple specific simultaneous point mutations is a typical evolutionary pathway. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Three or four simultaneous amino acid mutations is like skipping two or three steps on an evolutionary staircase. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although finding the right neutral changes would itself be an improbable step, we'll again err on the conservative side and discount the average number of neutral mutations from the average number of total necessary changes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Unlike current vaccines, the nasal spray is also seen as effective in mutations of the H5N1 virus — meaning it could protect against a potential global pandemic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Biologists would not accept that anything beyond 2 simultaneous mutations is so improbable as to be impossible, there is a paper somewhere that estimates that in the global bacteria population, multiple simultaneous mutation combinations are happening regularly. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If we used the measured mutation rate in Plasmodium of 2.5E-9 (no different from that in humans), the probability of two simultaneous mutations is 6.3E-18, almost 1000-fold more likely than Behe's 10E-20. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Just as in mutations affecting an organism, most changes in social and political institutions are bad. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You're neglecting the fact that death itself eliminates mutations from the gene pool. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The only 'direction' to these mutations comes from the fact polymerases, ribosomal RNA and other 'housekeeping' genes are the most transcribed genes in the cell (needed all the time basically) and are closest to the origins of replication. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Obviously the events we call mutations were important as well. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In fact, it can be determined whether a sequence of mutations is random in the sense postulated by Darwinism. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But much of it occurs during our lives when -- during the natural division of cells, mistakes occur, or cells are exposed to environmental agents that cause genetic damage we refer to as mutations or variation, and it's an accumulation of those changes that results in the alterations of normal cell behavior to cancer cell behavior. ❋ ITY National Archives (1999)

Both earlier and later work by collaborators (Oliver, Hanson, etc.) showed definitely that the frequency of the gene mutations is directly and simply proportional to the dose of irradiation applied, and this despite the wave-length used, whether X - or gamma - or even beta-rays, and despite the timing of the irradiation. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Especially in areas of the body where cellular turnover is especially rapid, such as the digestive system, preventing DNA mutations translates into preventing cancer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

❋ Semph (2003)

person 1: *takes two [quart] cups of ice cream and opens them, putting first 2 small [scoops] of one flavor in his dish and then another 2 small scoops of the second flavor* person 2: Hey what are you doing with the ice cream? person 1: I'm mixing 2 flavors together to make one. person 2: Is that a [mutation]? person 1: *smiles in agreement* exactly. ❋ Mutation Mix Master (2010)

I'm sorry I can't [run with] you this [afternoon], I'm planning to lay around and [mutate] ❋ DarleneOliviaPope (2017)

"Fuck, I don't think I can handle another hit, I'm about to [mutate]" "Man, we're gonna fucking mutate, Ive already had a bottle of [vod], 11million joints & 32 pills, shit!" "[FUCK MAN], I'VE MUTATED" ❋ YoBitchorsomeshitlikethat (2009)

Girl: OMG, YOUR [MUTATION] IS (OH) (OH) [SO GOOD] (OH) (OH)!!! I'M GONNA...!! [AHHHHHHHHHHHHH]!!!! ❋ The Mutant W/ Da Mutated Penis (2009)

"[Wow] [what a] [Mutation]" ❋ OMG LEET HAX (2003)

[Look at that] [Mutation] on the [branch]! ❋ MuttyROX! (2003)

RADIOKILLED: [Ahh]!! [Fuck this] Mutation! I was [Muted]! ❋ Roxanne Hayley Michelle (2007)

"Im [feeling down] today" "You should have some [mutat]!" "Okay!" "Wow, i feel so much better, and [it tastes] amazing!" "You should have mutat everyday! Now lets just go over here to the bathroom...." ❋ ImightEatYou (2011)

Hey [Mutation] you just got [owned] by [OutKast]! ❋ OutKast (2003)