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Sure, you probably have several tens of thousands of mutations already and are likely accumulating a couple more mutations every single day you live.

Many mutations are harmless and of those that are very harmful they usually cause death of that one cell in which they occurred then the cell is replaced with a normal one. If the mutated cell doesn't die the immune system may identify it as "bad" and kill it, then the cell is replaced with a normal one.

Also sometimes a mutation in the sex cells (which won't affect that person at all, only their children) is a helpful improvement. Evolution can select such changes (and other ways the genes change) over following generations, thus possibly improving the population.

It is not possible for a mutation to completely transform an individual into something different. Although mutations can cause cancer if they don't kill the cell and the immune system overlooks the "bad" cell, but to become cancer typically takes multiple mutations (not just one) and often decades for the one cell to divide enough to become a tumor.

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