Both Uses of
mutation
in
The Fault in Our Stars
- Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.
p. 49.5mutation = change in the genes that determines how a living organism is 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."
p. 193.1 *mutation = a change in the genes that determines how a living organism is designededitor's notes: In other words, evolution advances via random mutations. When a mutation is successful, it may be reproduced, but cancer victims result from failed evolutionary experiments.
Definition:
a change in the genes that determine biological traits; or the result of the change