mutation
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"This could help explain why people with the same mutation can have different heart defects," Grant says.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Random mutation makes individuals differ, even within a single species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The team bases its conclusion on the fact that Laron syndrome is caused by a mutation in the growth hormone receptor in the liver.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The lemon frost morph originated from a spontaneous genetic mutation that appeared during selective breeding in a large colony of leopard geckos.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
For Darwin’s theory to work, heredity had to possess constancy and inconstancy, stability and mutation.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Scientists home in on unique mutations on the cancer cells that are likely to alert the immune system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
They then select mutations unique to the patient’s cancer to incorporate into an mRNA molecule, which provides the genetic code instructing cells to produce proteins with those mutations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Random mutations gradually accumulate in blood stem cells as people age.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rather than looking mainly for mutations, they focused on DNA methylation, chemical tags on DNA that help control gene activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
But we may easily be doing so now by inadvertence, for many chemicals, like radiation, bring about gene mutations.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing mutation
Genetics - Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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