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Submitted by LaKesha on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 8:23am.
I have always found mutations interesting because you never know what's going to come of it. It's all random and it can have negative effects or positive effects. I remember doing a project on different disorders in high school and we had to find out what was the cause of the disorders and most of them were caused by a mutation of different chromosomes. It's crazy how something as small as a change in a chromosome can cause a person to have fatal disorders later on in life. I was also wondering how much of a role mutations played in evolution? DO mutations help species to evolve?

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