Sentence examples for mutation to occur from inspiring English sources

In contrast to others reporting the BRAF V600K mutation to occur in about 6 20 % of BRAF-mutated melanomas [ 30], we only observed this mutation in one out of 30 metastases (3.3 %).

But it can take a long time for the right mutation to occur, especially if there is a very small target, like the region of DNA that controls a gene.

Compared to more traditional types of plant mutation techniques, using x-rays or gamma rays, plants need to be exposed to only a low dosage of powerful heavy ion beams for a short time — seconds and minutes instead of hours, days or weeks — for a high likelihood of mutation to occur.

When Exercise 3 was introduced with a clicker question, 65%% of the students who responded indicated that they expected the mutation to occur sooner when it was rewarded.

But, it seems, even God himself must have been holding his breath waiting for precisely the right random mutation to occur at just the right time.

We assessed whether principles of codon usage would enable such a mutation to occur in the context of natural virus.

And how hard, or easy, would it be for those mutations to occur?

But researchers could not say how likely it was for the other three mutations to occur.

This means that no matter how intense the selection pressure imposed by breeders may be, it will not cause specific favorable mutations to occur.

Specifically, Teacher C often questioned if there were some sort of outside molecular (i.e., centralized) force causing mutations to occur in DNA sequences, thus driving evolution forward.

Students then allow mutations to occur in the snails, examine individual offspring to see that mutations are random, and compare the average snail shell thickness in the new population after several generations of predation from crabs.