Sentence examples for spontaneous mutation from inspiring English sources

Others can occur as a spontaneous mutation.

"I think the correct characterization of it is that it was a spontaneous mutation," Gurry said.

Tamiflu resistance that did spread in seasonal flu emerged last year from a spontaneous mutation known as H274Y on the N gene.

It is not known if she herself inherited such a gene, which appears on an X chromosome, or if it was a spontaneous mutation in her genome.

Rather, it results from the spontaneous mutation of a gene known as LMNA (lamin A/C).

Blood oranges were the result of a spontaneous mutation of the sweet orange.

The striking thing about the case, the researchers said, was that neither parent had the gene defect, which therefore must have developed in the child as a spontaneous mutation.

My suggestion is that the sudden expansion of the brain 200,000 years ago was a dramatic spontaneous mutation in the brain of Mitochondrial Eve or a relative which then spread through the species.

These disorders show a strong family history, unless the condition arose from a new spontaneous mutation in an individual.

In 1945 Hershey and Luria, working independently, demonstrated the occurrence of spontaneous mutation in both the bacteriophages and the host.

But science has at least identified the gene that makes the rogue protein, and thus understands how the disease can also result from spontaneous mutation at the rate of about one person in a million.