Are there mutated animals

Answer 1

Exposure to radiation and some mutagen compounds can mutate animal DNA. The mutations will not work anything like they do in movies and TV. The mutations, if they have any noticeable effect, will most likely result in cell death or cancer.

Answer 2

Mutation can happen in a number of ways. Generally mutation happens during cell division. There are two types of cell division. Mitosis and Meiosis. In Mitosis, the cells duplicate themselves, giving the new cell the same number of chromosomes. In Meiosis, the chromosomes are halved into two cells. Later those cells can combine with other cells that were divided by half, but may have different parts of the gene in the chromosomes forming a new cell with different genes. This is the common way for genetic diversity. There are times when the cells don't divide properly and one may have more chromosomes than another. Then when fused with another cell, it is off balance and may make a sterile plant, sometimes though this sterile plant can make that same flaw again and the chromosomes then can match up and become sterile to form another generation.

There are other ways too, by forcing the cells to be more acceptable to mutation during cell division, but I don't know them.

I know you can use cytokinins to produce cell division, which can increase your odds. You can use fresh coconut milk because it has a lot of cytokinins. This is also used in plant propagation, especially when doing tissue culture.

Answer 3

Yes, there are always mutated animals.