Quotes of: Mutations Keyword

A number of well-understood mechanisms, including single gene mutations, produce changes that qualify as macroevolution. These include heterochronic mutations that alter structures by changing growth rates, homeotic mutations that change the identiti...

Kenneth R. Miller

Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me emphasize, our experience with malaria’s effects on humans (arguably our most highly studied genetic system) shows tha...

Michael J. Behe

Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Professor Charles Xavier: Heterochromia was in reference to your eyes which I have to say are stunning. One green, one blue. It's a mutation. It's a very groovy mutation. I've got news for you, Amy. You are a mutant. Co-Ed: First you proposition a gi...

X-Men: First Class

Charlie Kaufman: [voice over] Okay, we open with Laroche. He's funny. Okay. He says, "I love to mutate plants". He says "Mutation is fun". Okay, we show flowers and... okay. We have to have the court case. Okay, we show Laroche. Okay, he says "I was ...

Adaptation.

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 ge...

Nina Fedoroff

[thinking Marty is an alien] Sherman Peabody: It's already mutated into human form! Shoot it! Old Man Peabody: [firing shotgun at barn] Take that, you mutated son of a bitch!

Back to the Future

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolu...

Lynn Margulis

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 t...

Jeffrey Kluger

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

Frans Lanting

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

Eric Topol

New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.

Lynn Margulis

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

Margaret Chan

Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.

Robert Smithson

Magneto: [after mutating Mutant Kelly] Welcome to the future.

X-Men

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

Professor Charles Xavier: Heterochromia. Co-Ed: A gentleman would at least offer to buy me a drink first. Professor Charles Xavier: Heterochromia is in reference to your eyes, which I have to say are stunning. One green, one blue. It's a mutation. It...

X-Men: First Class

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

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

Daniel Nathans

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

John Burdett