Quotes About Mutation

he doesn't have the normal share of miterosis.

In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

F***ing triffids.

The trouble with mental catch is that the ball you throw changes in midair into another.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.

Estaría bien que se pudiera explicar la crueldad de los gobernantes con mutaciones o maldiciones.

I would argue that when mutation is spread over a sufficiently long period it ceases to be mutation and becomes evolution.

when mutation is spread over a sufficiently long period it ceases to be mutation and becomes evolution.

The place of every creature from the forests and swamps that becomes extinct is occupied by something else, some new mutation, adapted to the artificial environment created by people.

Cancer has enormous diversity and behaves differently: it's highly mutable, the evolutionary principles are very complicated and often its capacity to be constantly mystifying comes as a big challenge.

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

Moreover, the slightest 'mutation' of an algorithm (say a slight change in a Turing machine specification, or in its input tape) would tend to render it totally useless, and it is hard to see how actual improvements in algorithms could ever arise in this random way. (Even deliberate improvements are difficult without 'meanings' being available.

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Many words are in a state of mutation, the pronunciation being unsettled even in the best society, a result that must often arise where language is as variable and undetermined as the English.

Qualsiasi grande può regredire a inutile comparsa se una mutazione cambia il punto di vista e rende difficile annoverarlo fra i profeti dal nuovo mondo. [...] Non è tanto una questione di forza della singola opera e del singolo autore: è la prospettiva che detta la regola: poi, solo dopo, interviene quella forza, a orientare i giudizi.

what is one thing today becomes quite another thing tomorrow.

They were a reshuffling of the genetic deck never seen on Earth.

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one that comes into being, they feel, diminishes the rest of humanity, ordinary homo sapiens, that little bit more.