Quotes About Mutation

A mix of human and lizard and who knows what else. White, tight reptilian skin smeared with gore, clawed hands and feet, their faces a mess of conflicting features.

My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.

too high a rate of mutation prevents locking in the benefits of previous changes: evolution (and progress) requires some, but not too frequent, variation.

Mitsuru and Yuriko and Kazue didn't mutate; they simply decayed. A biology professor certainly ought to be able to recognize the signs of fermentation and decay. Isn't he the one who taught us all about these processes in organisms? In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.

Roughly speaking, two peoples' genomes differ in only about one out of every thousand bases. This is like having two pages in two different books differ by a single letter.

unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations

it is so important to bear in mind the probability of conversion from one function to another

Après douze générations, la proportion du sang, pour employer une expression vulgaire, n'est que de 1 sur 2 048; et pourtant, comme nous le voyons, on croit généralement que cette proportion infiniment petite de sang étranger suffit à déterminer une tendance au retour [ de ces caractères perdus. ]

Natura non facit saltum.

By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious, or not useful to the species.

Specifically, they'd used genetic material from colon cancer, one of the more robust strains, and the results had been striking. The

Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Evolution has one big rule: If there's no pressure on the system to change, then it doesn't bother.

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right.

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.

If you take 100 breast-cancer samples, 100 types of cancer have 100 different hallmarks of mutated genes. You could be nihilistic and say, 'Oh, God, we'll never be able to tackle this!' But there are deep, systematic, organizational principles at work in all that diversity.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

If wolves could become poodles in a few thousand years, think what humans could turn into, if there was a ne

The Armenian genocide was a horrific illustration of the convulsions that could seize a multi-ethnic polity trying to mutate from empire into nation state.

This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.

So even if there was a mutation in Loch Ness I still don't think you're going to see a 30ft eel.

Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame.