Sentence examples for means of mutations from inspiring English sources

Although these animals had never before encountered this synthetic compound, they adapted to it rapidly by means of mutations that allowed them to survive in its presence.

Some thinkers, including Freeman Dyson, the physicist and futurist at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, have suggested that the "Darwinian interlude" of three billion years of evolution by means of mutations passing down through species is coming to an end.

The complex relationships between stimuli and actions in the organisms are stochastically altered by means of mutations, thus enabling the organisms to adapt to their environment and maximise their lifespan and reproductive success.

At a pathological level, mitochondrial failure, by means of mutations in mitochondrial DNA, can cause mitochondrial diabetes in humans and mice [11], [12].

Populations adapt physiologically using regulatory mechanisms and genetically by means of mutations that improve growth.

When a bacterium develops resistance to a particular anti-infective mode of action, either by the acquisition of genes via mobile agents (e.g., plasmids and transposons) or by means of mutations, it gains an evolutionary advantage over its nonresistant congeners when the host is under anti-infective treatment (Levy and Marshall 2004).

Cancer type Mutation/tumor Respiratory/lung cancer 200 300 Skin/melanoma 100 200 Esophageal/colon cancer 50 100 Pancreatic, ovarian 30 60 Breast 20 70 Hematopoietic cancer 1 10 (CML/AML/ALL/CLL) rhabdo/myo/sarcoma 1 3 Mutations of tumor cells were based on means of mutation in single patients (CML/AML/ALL/CLL) Soft tissue/rhadomyoscarcoma.

With an important role in maintaining anoikis, Smad4 is often defective in cancer by means of mutation or deletion [ 82].

The first scenario corresponds to the evolution of earlier aging by means of antagonistic pleiotropy [ 2], the second by means of mutation accumulation [ 1].

The presence of a causal mutation in one of the genes associated with autosomal dominant forms of EDS was excluded by means of mutation screening of COL1A1, COL1A2, COL3A1, COL5A1, and COL5A2 at cDNA level and of TNXB at gDNA level in the proband.

64 Another option to provide a rapid means of mutation screening and reduce costs is described by Taylor et al. 65 The authors developed an amplification refractory mutation system (ARMS) specifically designed to detect 11 mutations in the LDLR gene, one common mutation in the APOB gene (p.Arg3527Gln, formally R3500Q) and one mutation in the PCSK9 gene (p.Asp374Tyr, D374Y).