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There's almost no food that isn't genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. Things change because our planet is subjected to a lot of radiation, which causes DNA damage, which gets repaired, but results in mutations, which create a ready mixture of plants that people can choose from to improve agriculture.
Nina Fedoroff
Food
Change
People
Plants
Agriculture
Our
Our Planet
Evolution
Mutations
Results
Almost
Genetic
Genetically
Because
Ready
Causes
Mixture
Subjected
Lot
Improve
Gets
Which
Modification
Create
Modified
Planet
Choose
Radiation
Things
Damage
Basis
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell
Life
Time
Freedom
Those
Mutations
Only
Shall
Longer
Goods
Subject
Yield
Personal
Any
Them
Ask
Who
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
Cynthia Kenyon
Life
Worms
Mutations
Life Span
Could
Discovered
Normal
Normal Life
Span
Double
Early
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
Daniel Nathans
First
Mutations
Genes
First Of All
Caused
Diseases
Human
Influenced
Many
Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel where the strongest versions survive.
Fred Ehrsam
Natural
Evolution
Run
Parallel
Mutations
Strongest
Through
Selection
Allow
Like
Versions
Survive
Just
Where
Experiments
Us
Natural Selection
Organisms
Multiple
Lets
Biological
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
Gary Wolf
Life
Experience
Our
Extremely
Complex
Definite
Mutations
Life Experience
Fooling
Arising
Environment
Between
Genes
Around
Mice
Traits
Taught
Interactions
Interest
Us
Products
Many
Specific
Phenomena
Although not yet routine, many cancer centers have the technology to sequence some or all of a patient's cancer genome. This can provide massive amounts of valuable information about your cancer, including whether you have genetic mutations and other abnormalities for which new drugs are available.
Kathy Giusti
You
Technology
Cancer
Valuable
Patient
Other
Mutations
Some
About
Genetic
New
Massive
Genome
Although
Provide
Information
Whether
Centers
Which
Available
Your
Sequence
Many
Including
Routine
Amount
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.
Laurie Garrett
Will
Pandemic
Changes
Viruses
Battles
Mutations
Unprotected
Through
Simply
Fail
Perhaps
Undergo
Render
Without
Equity
Passing
Planet
Useless
Vaccines
Life has survived for more than three billion years because it is robust, and almost no mutations can easily outwit the defense mechanisms built up through eons of exposure to potential pathogens.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Life
Three
Defense
Easily
Mutations
More
Potential
Through
Almost
Outwit
Because
Robust
Built
Years
Up
Than
Survived
Billion
Exposure
Mechanisms
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
Lynn Margulis
Change
Random
Evidence
Evolutionary
Mutations
Over
New
Looked
Until
Led
Accumulate
Taught
Again
Believed
Species
Language thus becomes monumental because of the mutations of advertising.
Robert Smithson
Language
Monumental
Mutations
Thus
Advertising
Because
Becomes
Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.
Sam Kean
Consequences
Alike
Mutations
Gene
Arise
Genes
Genome
Proteins
Bigger
Anywhere
Creature
Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
Sam Kean
Heart
Diabetes
Looking
Those
Mutations
Component
Bleak
Clearly
Genes
Genetic
Come
Look
Empty
Scientists
Heart Disease
Up
Survey
Disease
Common
Patients
Which
Things
All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
Sam Kean
Parents
Few
Every
Other
Those
Mutations
Born
Gene
Fact
Could
Pick
Well
Up
Human
In Fact
Human Beings
Beings
Slack
Lethal
Dozens
Copies
Two
If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.
Steven Johnson
You
Possible
Mutations
Open
Genetic
Error
Door
Us
Need
Bacteria evolve, and so they become resistant to existing drugs. Sometimes they revert, depending on how damaging the mutation is to the life cycle of the bacteria. Mutations that give rise to resistance against particular compounds do increase, and that is why you constantly have to have new ones.
Thomas A. Steitz
Life
You
Sometimes
Become
Increase
Evolve
Bacteria
Mutation
Mutations
Constantly
Compounds
Rise
Give
New
Particular
How
Revert
New Ones
Existing
Depending
Against
Cycle
Why
Resistance
Resistant
Damaging
Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA.
Alice Roberts
Events
Random
Inevitable
Own
Our
Unlikely
String
Ancestors
Evolution
Mutations
Inside
Some
DNA
Environments
Existence
Modern
Depended
Just
Happening
Far
Bodies
Inhabited
Your
Whole
Including
Species
Humans
Chance
Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases.
Alice Roberts
You
Biology
Randomness
Sperm
Significant
Mutations
Cases
Fact
DNA
Involved
Reaching
Became
Very
Hugely
Egg
In Fact
Aspects
Useful
Apparent
Many
Even
Presence
Necessary
Chance
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