Sentence examples for opportunities for mutation from inspiring English sources

These cells are maintained throughout life, increasing the opportunities for mutation accumulation.

The more people who get infected, he says, the greater the opportunities for mutation.

Knowledge of cancer genomic DNA sequences has created unprecedented opportunities for mutation studies.

Exon 7 is the largest at 393 bp, therefore it follows that more opportunities for mutation would result in more variants in this exon.

Identifying potentially protective or harmful and avoidable risk factors also creates opportunities for mutation carriers to reduce their risks of life-threatening diseases.

To create normalized rates of synonymous substitution, we divided each substitution count by the number of ancestral synonymous 'sites', or opportunities for mutation available for each class of substitution.

That's because it has so many more opportunities for mutations to crop up during cell division.

There are thus ample opportunities for mutations that spread by neutral genetic drift to cause subtle alterations in a P450's promiscuous activities.

It has been argued that the relatively slow generation lengths, and potentially infrequent opportunities for mutations, may make future species range models more accurate for long-lived species such as trees than for annuals (Pearson and Dawson 2003).

The intuition behind why this model is rejected is that there are many more cell divisions, and therefore opportunities for mutations to occur in the adult phase than in the growth phase [there are only 30 growth phase generations (30), while the adult SrAp divide every 16 days (31)].

Evolutionary overachievers, the bacteria "reproduce every 20 minutes, and each time there's an opportunity for mutation, to select out for resistance," said Dr. C. Glenn Mayhall, a specialist in infectious diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.