Assertion: mutation | /r/HasProperty | harmful
Facets:
value: more often than they are
type: DEGREE
value: to an organism
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: most likely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Though some mutations are harmful, most are not.
text: One study on the comparison of genes between different species of Drosophila suggests that if a mutation does change a protein, the mutation will most likely be harmful, with an estimated 70 percent of amino acid polymorphisms having damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or weakly beneficial.
text: Although mutations that cause changes in protein sequences can be harmful to an organism, on occasions the effect may be positive in a given environment.
text: Evolutionists recognize, of course, the problem of trying to explain “onward and upward” evolution on the basis of mutations that are harmful at least 1,000 times more often than they are helpful.
text: The sign of the change in this probability defines mutations to be beneficial, neutral or harmful to organisms.
text: Anders Møller, a scientist at the University of Paris-Sud, argues that since most mutations are harmful, it’s unlikely that a wolf capable of moving this far would be heavily impacted by radiation.
text: Although most mutations that change protein sequences are harmful or neutral, some mutations have benefits.