What are the advantages and disadvantages of mutation?
Its for a little homework task, but I missed out on the lesson where we get taught, and its due tomorrow! Please help!
Just about 3 for respectively, or does anyone know of a good website where I could find some info on mutation aswell?
Answers:
advantages are evolution- things becoming better than the last social group etc.
disadvantages are things like viruses when they mutate and although it is good from their perspective it make it harder to kill them with our medicines.
Erin is correct.
Adding to that pocket a virus. It's good for the virus that it evolves, mutates and adapts but bad for a host.
You could yak about radiation that mutates babies born.
They mutate because their cell structure or growing inside the womb is confused. (Bad mutation)
Any type of natural mutation is good for the species. It could be unpromising for another.
Like a lion that mutates/evolves. It gets stronger and more adapted to chase prey and kill them. This is good for the lion but openly bad for whatever it feeds on.
I don't know how far away from the classic scene of mutation you want to go but you could comment on a human who reads books too much. If they do it for long enough their eyes will fit into being extremely near sighted and that will hinder them if they want to use their eyes to see something far away. This will also achieve passed down to their children.
If something adapts one way it will make it harder to do something else.
Addition on what ptrx said- doomed to failure mutations that don't help the species don't really exist. It's more like the species might mutate but be unable to convert fast enough to the situation and slowly die off. Random mutations through evolution don't basically happen. The body and brain slowly adapts through generations to best suit the habitat and hold the species alive. Source(s): lots of sources
Well Mutations are good if it helps a species adapt so they don't stir extinct. It can be bad also if the mutation doesn't help a species. The bad mutations usually die past its sell-by date though, and don't reproduce due to natural selection and so the bad mutation genes don't get hold of into the gene pool. Source(s): School, It's Cool!
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Just about 3 for respectively, or does anyone know of a good website where I could find some info on mutation aswell?
Answers:
advantages are evolution- things becoming better than the last social group etc.
disadvantages are things like viruses when they mutate and although it is good from their perspective it make it harder to kill them with our medicines.
Erin is correct.
Adding to that pocket a virus. It's good for the virus that it evolves, mutates and adapts but bad for a host.
You could yak about radiation that mutates babies born.
They mutate because their cell structure or growing inside the womb is confused. (Bad mutation)
Any type of natural mutation is good for the species. It could be unpromising for another.
Like a lion that mutates/evolves. It gets stronger and more adapted to chase prey and kill them. This is good for the lion but openly bad for whatever it feeds on.
I don't know how far away from the classic scene of mutation you want to go but you could comment on a human who reads books too much. If they do it for long enough their eyes will fit into being extremely near sighted and that will hinder them if they want to use their eyes to see something far away. This will also achieve passed down to their children.
If something adapts one way it will make it harder to do something else.
Addition on what ptrx said- doomed to failure mutations that don't help the species don't really exist. It's more like the species might mutate but be unable to convert fast enough to the situation and slowly die off. Random mutations through evolution don't basically happen. The body and brain slowly adapts through generations to best suit the habitat and hold the species alive. Source(s): lots of sources
Well Mutations are good if it helps a species adapt so they don't stir extinct. It can be bad also if the mutation doesn't help a species. The bad mutations usually die past its sell-by date though, and don't reproduce due to natural selection and so the bad mutation genes don't get hold of into the gene pool. Source(s): School, It's Cool!
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