Sentence examples for mutations to adapt from inspiring English sources

"Modern humans didn't wait for new mutations to adapt to a new environment," he says.

Those compensatory effects would then leave more room for evolution-driven mutations to adapt the complex machinery of the cell to different environmental conditions.

However, almost all currently available chemotherapeutic drugs will eventually encounter resistance after their initial positive effect, mainly because cancer cells develop genetic alterations, collectively coined herein as mutations, to adapt to the therapy.

Because this resistance is controlled by multiple genes, the pathogen has to undergo multiple mutations to adapt to partial resistance which is more difficult than a single locus mutation.

As shown by various laboratory-based evolution studies (Kvitek and Sherlock 2013), a high prevalence of AP in the segregant population suggested that as strains evolve, they accumulate beneficial mutations to adapt to the immediate environment, independent of the antagonistic effects in other environments.

The claim of directed evolution and adaptive molecular evolution is that natural selection generates particularly evolvable enzymes in response to rapidly fluctuating selective conditions and that proteins that require fewest mutations to adapt to novel conditions are the most likely to survive environmental changes [ 33].

If an animal is maladapted because of a recent change in its environment, a mutation to adapt an animal to the new environment should move P in the same direction that O moved.

Although the genomic sequences confirmed that the circulating virus in Chiapas belonged to the Asian lineage, which is primarily transmitted by A. aegypti mosquitoes (1 ), we nevertheless examined the sequences for mutations known to adapt CHIKV for transmission by A. albopictus mosquitoes.

In the short-term, highly optimized populations containing little variability respond better to environmental changes upon an increase of the mutation rate, whereas populations with a lower degree of optimization but higher variability benefit from reducing the mutation rate to adapt rapidly.

Frankel et al. propose that the variability of chemotaxis protein levels between genetically identical cells can change through mutations in the genes that control how many of the proteins are produced, and predict that such mutations allow populations to adapt to environmental changes.

Obligate parthenogenesis is much more common but is predicted ultimately to drive lineages to extinction due to the accumulation of deleterious mutations or inability to adapt to environmental changes [ 2].