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a change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designed; or the result of the change

The gene (which greatly increases the carrier's chance of getting colon cancer by age 80) is believed to have been tracked to a mutation in the Fry family in 1630.

mutation = change in the genes that determine how a living organism is designed

Radiation is less dangerous after child-bearing years since mutations can no longer affect the next generation.

mutations = changes in the genes

The study on a species of fly indicates that most mutations are harmful, but they can also be neutral or beneficial.

mutations = changes in the genes that determine how living organisms are designed

mutations = changes in the genes that determine how living organisms are designed

"You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation."
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

mutation = a change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designed

There are countless people under words like "germline mosaicism," "chromosome rearrangement," or "delayed mutation."
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

mutation = a change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designed

They use terms like "chromosome rearrangement," or "delayed mutation" to explain why their science is not an exact science.
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

mutation = a change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designed

In August's case, the doctors were able to identify one of the "single nucleotide deletion mutations" that made war on his face.
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

mutations = a change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designed; or the result of the change

Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

mutation = change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designed

They were told that August had what seemed to be a "previously unknown type of mandibulofacial dysostosis caused by an autosomal recessive mutation in the TCOF1 gene, which is located on chromosome 5, complicated by a hemifacial microsomia characteristic of OAV spectrum."
R.J. Palacio -- Wonder

mutation = a change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designed

There will be a thousand mutations, each killing in a different way.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
It promotes mutation, change.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
However, all the mutations so increasingly discernible in village life did not originate entirely in the agricultural unrest.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
All mutations and all phases had been, or were about to be, exhausted.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
And what about this cellular mutation some Scottish scientist was worried about?
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Mutations are either totally irrelevant, or they can lead to marked changes in the behavior of the individual.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
Others like Using the mutations in your blood, I searched the rest of the bloodbase, finding the same in other samples.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
They have to make small mistakes when they do this (this is called Mutation).
Mark Haddon -- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
But that wasn't the mutation.
Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
The Lunar mutations, the army of beast-like creatures.
Marissa Meyer -- Cinder

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