You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it. — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. — Daniel Nathans Copy Share Image
No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution. — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
“How is it that you keep mutating and can still be the same virus?” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come… — Frank B. Salisbury Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just think we're not meant to fly halfway around the world in a day. That some kind of mutation is… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
If the mutation is partially transmitted to offspring, they too would have the advantage. And over time it might have come to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
It is absolutely a good thing that she [Angelina Jolie] helped to educate the world about the existence of this mutation; hopefully,… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Adaption of the human body in space is not yet mastered. As soon as you hit space, you feel your body is… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully designing shiny weapons on modern computers. But there's… — Michael J. Behe Copy Share Image
Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“A mutation that reverses the effect of a previous one (called a back mutation) could at one stroke revive a complex function… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
So even if there was a mutation in Loch Ness I still don't think you're going to see a 30ft eel. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
Having blue eyes is actually a mutation. Before the mutation occurred, all humans had brown eyes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
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