All sorts of exotic and often terrible stuff runs through our heads when we think of genetic mutations, but the vast majority of them are caught before they happen thanks to the crack teams replicating our DNA in our cells.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and this is Short Stuff, the Mysteries of Genetic Mutations edition.
That's right, because we're going to talk about the X-Men.
Yeah, a mutation. I mean, I don't know if it would help you join the X-Men, but there are mutations that alter people, sometimes in positive ways. We usually associate it with negative stuff, like a congenital disease or something. A lot of them are neutral. I think actually the vast majority are neutral. They don't really have any noticeable effect. Some are beneficial.
Lactose intolerance, immunity to malaria, when someone's vestigial tail turns into a glorious full tail, those are all beneficial genetic mutations. But all of them share something in common, and that is that the replication of the person's genome had some sort of error while it was being copied. Is lactose intolerance a beneficial mutation? No, lactose tolerance.
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