MUTATION. PLEASE HELP - Biology Forum

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gwoe 17 years, 9 months ago

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- March 3, 2007 at 8:19 am #7082
  gwoe
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  Please help.
  Q:What is one benneficial and one harmful mutation??
  thankyou
- March 3, 2007 at 8:56 am #69640
  Dr.Stein
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  Benefit: Biodiversity
  Harmful: Abnormality
- March 3, 2007 at 9:59 pm #69652
  Darby
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  There are a lot of genetic diseases that are beneficial in some environments but harmful in others.
  Like sickle-cell hemoglobin. Beneficial in the face of malaria, not so much elsewhere. Cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs. Maybe schizophrenia, although that might be just a rare multiple-gene effect.
- March 3, 2007 at 10:56 pm #69653
  gwoe
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  but is this correct for human mutations?
- March 3, 2007 at 11:17 pm #69655
  mith
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  Look them up, those are all human diseases.
- March 4, 2007 at 1:19 am #69658
  gwoe
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  thankyou so much.
  you’ve all helped heaps!
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