Sentence examples for cause a mutation from inspiring English sources

The ads will tell smokers that just 15 cigarettes can cause a mutation that leads to cancerous tumours in what marks a return to shock campaigning.

This mismatch will, in turn, cause a mutation in the opposite strand if replication occurs without repair, leading to the appearance of the dinucleotide CpA as well [51].

Without differential survival of extant forms, a mutation with 3 4% prevalence would have to have arisen when the viral population size was about 30; this implies (if early viral growth is a fast exponential) that the mutation rate was large enough to cause a mutation in our sequenced region of 130 base pairs once in about 30 replications.

Such growth itself would not be sufficient to cause a mutation.

This was the first time it had been shown that a virus could insert into the mammalian genome and cause a mutation that induced an observable phenotype.

Of the detected AK2 variants, seven missense variants, which cause a mutation at the amino acid level for the encoded protein, were detected in seven heterozygous individuals at a frequency of one individual per variant (Table 2).

The radioactivity of the water has caused a mutation in the offspring of the crocodiles.

A cancer occurs when something causes a mutation in the genes that limit cell growth or that repair DNA damage.

Mr. Florio's troubles caused a mutation in New Jersey politicians, giving them a string in the back of their necks which, when pulled, makes them say, "I will not raise taxes".

C233A causes a mutation (T78N) at the amino acid level, and T246C is silent.

During DNA replication, DNA polymerase incorporates an incorrect base opposite to an aberrant base, causing a mutation.