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Mutants in the sense you mean do not exist. Actual mutations generally result in no noticeable change or the power to not live very long; even a "simple" living organism is a highly complicated piece of machinery and a mutation is effectively the equivalent of whacking a clock with a sledgehammer. Very rarely a mutation turns out to have a beneficial effect, but those are along the lines of "blends in slightly better with background foliage," not "shoots laser beams from eyes."
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Is it easy for breeders to produce mutants with desirable mutations?
With luck and perseverance, however, breeders can produce a few mutants-individuance with mutations-with desirable characteristics that are not found in the original population.
Why do benedicial adaptations spread in a population?
The populations which contain many different beneficial mutants, will be substantial variation in the fitness within the population.
How does a nonsense suppressor mutation prevent amber mutants from terminating their polypeptides prematurely?
The mutation alters a tRNA so that it reads the amber codon and inserts an amino acid.
What did George Beadle and Edward Tatum do?
Beadle and Tatum did a lot of things. The thing they are now famous for is their mold experiment where they obstructed various genes to determine a one gene to one enzyme hypothesis. While this hypothesis was proven wrong, it was a breakthrough experiment that highlighted the relationship between enzymes and genes.Their experiment subject was a mold called Neurospora crassa, a bread mold. They bombarded it with X-rays, a treatment known to cause genetic changes, and then looked amongst the surviving mold for mutants whose nutritional needs were different from the control type, or wild type, which had very little needs because it was able to produce most of the other molecules it needed. Beadle and Tatum grew the various mutants and wild types in a minimal medium made up of agar, inorganic salts, glucose, and vitamin biotin.They then identified the mutants that couldn't survive on this minimal medium due to their inability to synthesize the molecules they needed to survive. Tatum and Beadle placed these mutants in a complete growth medium which consisted of the minimal medium with the addition of all 20 amino acids and other nutrients. The mutants survived.Thing began to get exciting. To figure out the metabolic defects in each nutritional mutant, Beadle and Tatum took samples of the various mutants and placed them in vials containing minimal medium and another single nutrient. If the mutant could survive, the metabolic defect would be related to the single nutrient. They continued this with minimal medium (MM) and various types of single nutrients. They noted that one of the vials that contained surviving mutants was the one with added arginine.They went on the further narrow down the metabolic defect. They did further tests with more specificity. They went on to distinguish three classes of arginine-requiring mutants because the arginine-synthesizing pathway had three steps and each mutant required different sets of compounds to produce it.Their results look a little like this:............................Wild type..Class I Mutants..Class II Mutants..Class III MutantsMM........................Survived.............Died..................Died.....................DiedMM + ornithine......Survived..........Survived..............Died.....................DiedMM + citruline........Survived..........Survived...........Survived.................DiedMM + arginine.......Survived...........Survived...........Survived..............Survivedwhere the minimum nutrients are needed to make ornithine through Enzyme A (not the actual name), ornithine is needed to make citruline through Enzyme B, and citruline is needed to make arginine through Enzyme C.Tatum and Beadle could deduce from their results that each class must be blocked by a different step in this pathway because the mutants in that specific class lacked the enzyme required to catalyze the step.Therefore Class I must have lacked enzyme A which would have produced ornithine because when it was added, Class I survived. Class II must have lacked enzyme B which would have produced citruline from ornithine, and Class III lacked enzyme C which would have produced arginine from citruline.Because each of the mutants had a single defected gene, Tatum and Beadle's experiment was strong proof for the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis. They were rewarded with a Nobel Prize in 1958 for, in the words of the Nobel committee, "their discovery that genes act by regulating definite chemical events".Today we know that one gene doesn't actually code for a single protein or even a single polypeptide (subunits which may make up a larger protein like hemoglobin which is made up of two polypeptides). Because of RNA processing, or post-transcriptional modification, a single gene can code for many (as in hundreds, maybe thousands) of proteins.
How is skeletal muscle adapted for its role in the body?
Well, the skeletal muscles have adapted in the same way the black guy in X men: first class adapts to his surroundings. Skeletal muscles are mutants. God help us.
Who taught mutants how to use their super powers to benefit the world?
"Who taught mutants how to use their super powers to benefit the world?"
How can you gain mutants powers?
It is impossible, the X-Men is a work of fiction.
Is there x men?
The "X-Men", mutants who have extraordinary powers, are entirely fictional.
Who taught mutants how to use their super powers?
no one taught them they just got the hang of it instantly
How did magneto become a villain?
First, he used his powers for good with Professor X. He always thought mutants and humans could never get along. He thought mutants should rule over humans. One day, Professor X and him had a big argument. Then he flew away and next thing you know, he's evil!
How storm became mutant?
In the Marvel Universe, mutants like Storm are born with a special gene, referred to as the X-Gene. Usually when a mutant reaches puberty their powers and physical mutants appear.
What Can the X-Men do?
Well they are a team of mutants and they all have there own unique powers. Read the comics, they are great!
How did kitty Pryde get her powers?
Kitty Pryde is a mutant, that means that she is born with her powers. For most mutants they will start to arive at puberty, hers came at 13 1/2.
How did the X-men get there power?
The X-Men are mutants, humans born with an "X gene" which activates at puberty giving them special powers.
Do mutants live in the hills?
No- mutants do not exist.
Why are there mutants?
Mutants are formed from scientific mishap usually.
Are superpowers a evolutionary possibility?
Yes it is an evolutionary possibilitie like mutants are evolved human decades or centurys from existence god can give powers if he wishes
