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In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes. -- Nina Fedoroff
Mutations are exciting, there aren't nearly enough of them. -- Doug Stanhope
Mutations are exciting. They try to fix 'em when they come out. Did you see the two-headed baby they killed last month when they tried to cut it apart? That was hilarious! -- Doug Stanhope
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising. -- Robert Smithson
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. -- Eric Topol
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes. -- Daniel Nathans
I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway. -- James Lovelock
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms. -- Cynthia Kenyon
You would think that UV just causes mutations, but it doesn't; you need a gene to be active for it. -- Cynthia Kenyon
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible. -- Steven Johnson
This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map. -- Francis Crick
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet. -- Laurie Garrett
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. -- Bertrand Russell
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. -- Lynn Margulis
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here. -- Francis Crick
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. -- Lionel Trilling
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience. -- Gary Wolf
There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture. -- Nina Fedoroff
Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Choose your mutations carefully. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising -- Robert Smithson
Exploitation, mutilation, mutations, confirmation to the evils of the world. -- Stevie Wonder
New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired. -- Lynn Margulis
She's not trying to make Radiasure, Fi. Allie is trying to cure mutations." -- Natalie Whipple
No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution. -- Pierre-Paul Grasse
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age. -- William Shakespeare
If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations. -- Frank B. Salisbury
D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time. -- Mark Stoneking
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. -- John Smith
A decade or so ago, all over the world, cinemas underwent one of those prince-into-frog mutations, and became, instead popcorn-restaurants, which offered the option of visual diversions for diners. -- Kevin Myers
It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation. -- Francisco J. Ayala
The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations. -- Carl Sagan
Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet. -- Seth Lloyd
In the event of atomic war there is a tremendous biological advantage in the so-called undeveloped areas that have a high birth rate and high death rate because, man, they can plow under those mutations. -- William S. Burroughs

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