mutations

INDIA has always been a spiritual rainforest, teeming with religions and their mutations.

印度是人类精神生活的雨林，许许多多辈份不一的宗教在这里济济一堂。

Every tumor begins with just one errant cell thAT has been unlucky enough to suffer AT least two, but sometimes several, genetic mutATions.

任何肿瘤都开始于某一个不幸产生至少两个或几个基因变异的细胞。

If this is true for other plants too, then growing into a tree may be a matter of a few mutations and the right circumstances.

如果这对其他植物同样适用的话，那么想要得到一棵树的话，只要一些基因的变异和适当的环境就够了。

Until now, however, researchers did not know which mutations could make this happen.

然而，迄今为止科学家还不知道什么样的突变会让这种情况出现。

That makes it easy to see when particular genetic mutations happened, and thus to construct a human family tree.

这个特点使得特殊的基因突变发生时比较容易看得出来，于是就可以构建一个人类族谱树状图。

Identify the cancer-causing mutations, and you might be able to develop drugs specifically tailored to deal with such reverted cells.

找到这些致癌的基因突变，人们大概就能够研制出专门对付这种返祖细胞的药品了。

The findings suggest that there may be strategies to identify whether infants are a carrier of one of these mutations.

这些发现提示，可能有策略发现婴儿是否携带这些基因变异。

Scientists have identified multiple genes and mutations that seem to be related to ASDs, but it's more complex than just genetics.

科学家们发现多基因和基因突变似乎和自闭症有关，但它比遗传学更加复杂。

In recent years scientists have learned that mutations in a gene called FOXP2 seem to be crucial for human speech.

近年来，科学家们已经了解到一种名为FOXP2的基因变异体似乎是人类语言能力的关键所在。

My lords, it has pleased Providence to places in such a state that we appear every moment to abe upon the verge of some great mutations.

议员们，令人高兴的是上帝把我们置于时时刻刻接近某些重大变化的情况下。

A woman harbouring one of these mutations transmits a variable amount of mutant mtDNA to each offspring.

一个女人窝藏这些突变传递一个变量数额线粒体DNA突变的每个后代。

"We strongly suspect that rare, highly deleterious mutations may co-exist with common polymorphisms in many infectious diseases, " he said.

他说：“我们非常怀疑那些罕见的、具有高度危害的基因突变可能与许多感染性疾病的普遍多形性共存。”

Generally, we accept that this happens through the DNA sequences: small, random mutations are inherited by offspring.

通常来说，我们认为这一过程发生在DNA序列中：后代继承了微小而随机的基因突变结果。

Had a few, fateful mutations changed an innocuous chimp virus into a human killer?

是一些决定性的突变让这种良性的猩猩病毒变身为人类杀手的吗？

Locus heterogeneity --- The production of identical phenotypes by mutations at two or more different loci.

基因座异质性：不同基因座的突变导致了相同或相似表型的效应。

The mutations seem to disrupt genes that are active in the developing brain and which are turned on and off in response to experience.

这些突变可能会破坏在大脑发育中表现活跃的基因，面对不同的外部体验，人体会选择是否让这些基因发挥作用。

The contribution of these mutations to the adaptation of the cells towards the halogenated base will be the subject of follow-up studies.

这些变异对于细胞向卤代基的转化的影响将是后续研究的课题。

Several surveillance pathways have been identified over the last few years that recognize specific types of mutations in RNAs.

在过去数年间科学家已经找到了数个监视机制，它们负责识别RNA的特定变异。

The concept of maturity has undergone several mutations over the course of American history.

“成熟”的定义在美国的历史进程中几经转变。

So there was no way that natural selection could favor individuals with reversed mutations.

所以自然选择就不会优选这些逆转突变的个体。