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  • But that wasn't the mutation.†   (source)
  • And what about this cellular mutation some Scottish scientist was worried about?†   (source)
  • Others like Using the mutations in your blood, I searched the rest of the bloodbase, finding the same in other samples.†   (source)
  • Whether it's a species-jumping mutation or a deliberate fabrication is anybody's guess.†   (source)
  • The Lunar mutations, the army of beast-like creatures.†   (source)
  • "That's a very limited mutation," she said.†   (source)
  • Brian had seen several rabbits with similar white spots and had thought they were some kind of fluke or mutation but he guessed now that they actually changed color in the winter and became white so that they wouldn't be so visible.†   (source)
  • An official report on the Nievre in 1844 described the strange mutation of the Burgundian day-laborer once the harvest was in and the vine stocks had been burned: "After making the necessary repairs to their tools, these vigorous men will now spend their days in bed, packing their bodies tightly together in order to stay warm and eat less food.†   (source)
  • But Gogol, already short and catchy, resists mutation.†   (source)
  • Radium causes mutations that can turn into cancer, and at high doses it can burn the skin off a person's body.†   (source)
  • Mutations are either totally irrelevant, or they can lead to marked changes in the behavior of the individual.†   (source)
  • As the left tackle position evolved, it experienced as many false starts and dead ends and random mutations and unnatural selections as the other little evolutions deep inside football.†   (source)
  • Chances that the mutation would have died with him would have been excellent, as neither side of the Ralph White-Margaret Brigham alliance had cousins of a comparable age for the theoretical male ottspring to marry.†   (source)
  • A moisture-conserving mutation?†   (source)
  • Long ago there were genetic mutations, like albinos, but those don't exist anymore.†   (source)
  • It is thought that the virus went through a series of very rapid mutations at the time of its jump from primates to humans, which enabled it to establish itself successfully in people.†   (source)
  • Agents of mutations.†   (source)
  • He, or whatever his subjects called him, occupied the leading administrative office in his county—usually he was sheriff or judge or probate—but there were mutations, like Maycomb's Willoughby, who chose to grace no public office.†   (source)
  • You do remember a report three months ago about unsustainable mutations of the vaccine.†   (source)
  • I would have cut it up, and we would be mopping blood this morning, but-a Sitting Ghost mutation-it had an extra arm that wrested my hand away from the knife.†   (source)
  • You see, it's short on mutations; it does not enjoy Earth's high level of natural radiation.†   (source)
  • Even careful attention to the map did not stop the ground from continual mutation.†   (source)
  • A mutation.†   (source)
  • What happened to slow down molecular mutation?   (source)
    mutation = changes in the genes that determine biological traits
  • But despite doing everything slowly and having not changed much in two hundred million years, tuatara have a faster rate of molecular mutation than any other known animal.   (source)
    mutation = changes in the genes
  • There are countless people under words like "germline mosaicism," "chromosome rearrangement," or "delayed mutation."   (source)
    mutation = changes in the genes that determine biological traits
  • Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.   (source)
    mutation = 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.   (source)
    mutation = changes in the genes that determine biological traits
  • Like, the world is billions of years old, and life is a product of nucleotide mutation and everything.   (source)
  • 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."   (source)
    mutation = change in the genes that impacts biological traits
  • In August's case, the doctors were able to identify one of the "single nucleotide deletion mutations" that made war on his face.   (source)
    mutations = changes in the genes that determine biological traits
  • He became rather technical; spoke of the abnormal endocrine co-ordination which made men grow so slowly; postulated a germinal mutation to account for it.   (source)
    mutation = change in the genes that impact biological traits
  • A cancerous mutation that might be happening inside Mae, provoked by mistakes in her diet?†   (source)
  • In modern biological terms, this is a mutation.†   (source)
  • A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange mutation.†   (source)
  • A mutation, a change that may be the key to everything you are.†   (source)
  • "The mutation," I say, letting my hand graze his arm.†   (source)
  • If her engineering survived the mutation, her unique virus could also kill Svensson's lethal strain.†   (source)
  • The equation on the monitor, the Raison Strain, a mutation of her own creation.†   (source)
  • I believe I must guard against my own potential for brutality and the mutation of my own humanity.†   (source)
  • The key was here and, by all appearances, unaffected by the mutation.†   (source)
  • That would mean without you the mutation wouldn't happen?†   (source)
  • Assuming the mutation didn't destroy her back door.†   (source)
  • One hour and fifty minutes or two hours and ten minutes, and the mutation doesn't hold.†   (source)
  • So the mutation is sustained even when the temperatures come down?†   (source)
  • If it survived the mutation, three days.†   (source)
  • They say that your encoding survived the mutation.†   (source)
  • No one could have possibly guessed that mutation was even possible at such a temperature.†   (source)
  • He told Macklroy about the mutation and ensuing devastation in one long run-on sentence.†   (source)
  • But the chance of the back door she'd engineered surviving the mutation was terribly small.†   (source)
  • Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.†   (source)
  • The latter is not a realistic possibility—mutations occur at an extremely low rate in any population, and of course the chance of a specific mutation that would better adapt a dog for companionship ...well, it is possible, but statistically unlikely.†   (source)
  • Mutation?†   (source)
  • But sometimes a mutation can give an individual just that extra positive characteristic needed to hold its own in the struggle for existence.†   (source)
  • But you know you have a marker for gastrointestinal cancer, just an increased risk, and this researcher in Glasgow, who'd been following you and your vitals, saw that you're eating salami and other meats with nitrates that might be tipping you toward cellular mutation.†   (source)
  • Accepting, of course, the immediate dangers of radiation to themselves in order to provide a proper genetic heritage of mutation for the benefit of their descendants.†   (source)
  • With its evolutionary progress held down almost to zero by lack of radiation and a consequent most unhealthily low mutation rate, native life forms on Sanctuary just haven't had a decent chance to evolve and aren't fit to compete.†   (source)
  • This chap told me that they could improve a little through mutation from other causes, from new blood added by immigration, and from natural selection among the gene patterns they already own — but that is all very minor compared with the evolutionary rate on Terra and on any usual planet.†   (source)
  • You said the Raison Strain is a brand-new virus, less than a week old, a mutation of the Raison accine.†   (source)
  • If I'm right, just for the sake of argument, and they knew exactly how to initiate this mutation, how long would it take them to have a usable virus?†   (source)
  • She'd analyzed a simulation of the actual mutation a hundred times over the past hour and saw how it had worked.†   (source)
  • The vaccine never would have mutated because no natural cause would ever produce a heat high enough to trigger the mutation.†   (source)
  • But you have to understand that we're dealing with a mutation of a genetically engineered vaccine here-literally billions of DNA and RNA pairs.†   (source)
  • They have Monique; they have the vaccine; they know exactly how to force the mutation; they may have the antivirus.†   (source)
  • Reports of the potential mutation of the Raison Vaccine hit all the appropriate teletypes and computer screens throughout the massive bureaucracy of health services.†   (source)
  • Did your key survive the mutation?†   (source)
  • Below it, a model of the Raison Strain, a mutation that had survived after the vaccine had been subjected to intense heat for two hours, exactly as Thomas had predicted.†   (source)
  • If she could find the specific gene she'd engineered, and if it had survived the mutation, then introducing the virus she'd already developed to neutralize the vaccine might also render the Raison Strain impotent.†   (source)
  • Due to continual mutations, a type of pest develops that is resistant to the pesticide being used.†   (source)
  • But from time to time, due to quite chance mutations, some darker ones were born.†   (source)
  • Many diseases are in fact due to mutations.†   (source)
  • Every time a line divides into two, it's because mutations have resulted in a new species.†   (source)
  • There is no way to predict mutations of this kind.†   (source)
  • There will be a thousand mutations, each killing in a different way.†   (source)
  • And as for us down here, we understand what's happening now, in terms of the mutations.†   (source)
  • But none of the mutations in our tests have survived beyond a generation or two.†   (source)
  • We have some tests that reportedly show mutations, granted.†   (source)
  • "There will be no more mutations," Svensson said easily.†   (source)
  • Our contact said the mutations were unsustainable and died out in minutes.†   (source)
  • Watch for mutations and get back to me immediately.†   (source)
  • The latter is not a realistic possibility—mutations occur at an extremely low rate in any population, and of course the chance of a specific mutation that would better adapt a dog for companionship ...well, it is possible, but statistically unlikely.†   (source)
  • Rifkin and many others believed that any manipulation of DNA, even in a controlled laboratory setting, was dangerous because it might lead to genetic mutations and make it possible to engineer "designer babies."†   (source)
  • Mutations?†   (source)
  • "And if most mutations occur at times of multiplication, when the organism is growing most rapidly—" The sirens went off, and the computer flashed a message in red.†   (source)
  • Suffice it to say there is no way Thomas Hunter could have known that the Raison Vaccine was subject to unsustainable mutations.†   (source)
  • We know about the mutations and we also know that other, much more dangerous mutations hold under more intense heat.†   (source)
  • Our man at the CDC received a nervous visitor today who claimed that the mutations of the Raison Vaccine held together under pro-longed, specific heat.†   (source)
  • "Our man at the CDC received a nervous visitor today who claimed that the mutations of the Raison Vaccine held together under prolonged, specific heat," Svensson had said.†   (source)
  • You do know it's capable of mutating, because according to our internal sources, it also mutates at a lower heat, but the mutations never could sustain themselves for more than a generation or two.†   (source)
  • He blundered into the effect of phage on the mutation of bacterial species—very beautiful, very delicate—and after plodding months when he had been a sane citizen, an almost good husband, an excellent bridge-player, and a rotten workman, he knew again the happiness of high taut insanity.†   (source)
  • That Mrs. Munt should be the first to discover the misfortune was not remarkable, for she was so interested in the flats, that she watched their every mutation with unwearying care.†   (source)
  • Put more academically, it is the purification, mutation, and refinement of matter, its transubstantiation to something higher, its enhancement, as it were.†   (source)
  • It is the epitome of all hermetism— nothing less than the vessel, the carefully safeguarded crystal retort, in which matter is forced toward its final mutation and purification.†   (source)
  • Ask nothing of men, and in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.†   (source)
  • Because it was known that radiation affected the genes of laboratory animals, a fear spread among many hibakusha that future descendants of the survivors might be subject to mutations.†   (source)
  • All mutations and all phases had been, or were about to be, exhausted.†   (source)
  • Supporting his arguments with all kinds of examples and anecdotes from the books and loose pages that lay on the table before him, even reciting poetry a few times, Dr. Krokowski discussed love's frightening forms—bizarre, agonized, eerie mutations of its symptoms and omnipotence.†   (source)
  • However, all the mutations so increasingly discernible in village life did not originate entirely in the agricultural unrest.†   (source)
  • From this fundamental difference between the view held by history and that held by jurisprudence, it follows that jurisprudence can tell minutely how in its opinion power should be constituted and what power—existing immutably outside time—is, but to history's questions about the meaning of the mutations of power in time it can answer nothing.†   (source)
  • These marks are his signature, his physiological autograph, so to speak, and this autograph can not be counterfeited, nor can he disguise it or hide it away, nor can it become illegible by the wear and mutations of time.†   (source)
  • It may be answered meanwhile, in regard to Shakespeare's and to George Eliot's testimony, that their concession to the "importance" of their Juliets and Cleopatras and Portias (even with Portia as the very type and model of the young person intelligent and presumptuous) and to that of their Hettys and Maggies and Rosamonds and Gwendolens, suffers the abatement that these slimnesses are, when figuring as the main props of the theme, never suffered to be sole ministers of its appeal, but have their inadequacy eked out with comic relief and underplots, as the playwrights say, when not with murders and battles and the great mutations of the world.†   (source)
  • And though, by the lapse of time, and those mutations which age produces in empires, cities, and boroughs, Queen's Crawley was no longer so populous a place as it had been in Queen Bess's time—nay, was come down to that condition of borough which used to be denominated rotten—yet, as Sir Pitt Crawley would say with perfect justice in his elegant way, "Rotten!†   (source)
  • So Owen rechristened the monster Zeuglodon; and in his paper read before the London Geological Society, pronounced it, in substance, one of the most extraordinary creatures which the mutations of the globe have blotted out of existence.†   (source)
  • [56] And of the most copious and persistent enlargement of vocabulary and mutation of idiom ever recorded, perhaps, by descriptive philology†   (source)
  • And because the constitution of a mans Body, is in continuall mutation; it is impossible that all the same things should alwayes cause in him the same Appetites, and aversions: much lesse can all men consent, in the Desire of almost any one and the same Object.†   (source)
  • But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee, Life would not yield to age.†   (source)
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