Causes of mutation
In order for a Cell to divide, it must replicate it's DNA so it can give to the daughter cells. To do this, the Parent cell will unfold it's DNA strand, so another strand could copy out the genetic information . This process take place every time the cells are reproducing, which means every minute thousands of copies are made, millions are made every day. Now this process is very old and should be no problem, but if we take that one process and multiply it thousands of times every day, even the most consistent method of replicating might cause error due to chance of nature.
Mutagens and carriers
However there are also factors that affects mutations, thus any factors that increase the chance of cell mutation is called Mutagen. A common mutagen is radiation, which we are being exposed to every day by the sun's ultra violet rays. The prolonged radiation can caused wrong information to be sent which cause genetically different daughter cells to be created that might have negative impact on us such as skin cancer due to abnormality in growth and replication of cells.
In case of changing nature of any mutated cell, the body immunity system will automatically kick in and eliminate any defective cells. In fact, most mutations have little to no negative effects on our body, in fact the moles on are body are skin mutations, that's why some moles contains wrong genetic information to develop hairs on wrong places!
Mutation have long been the driving the force behind evolution of life forms. Due to the changing of cell functions, some of the mutation might be beneficial to the organism's survival which it will then carry on to it's offspring! These parents that contains the mutation in their life time will only have special genetics on the mutated cells, however their mutated offspring will have the special genetics information on all their cells which will have a chance to be switched on in their life time.
In case of changing nature of any mutated cell, the body immunity system will automatically kick in and eliminate any defective cells. In fact, most mutations have little to no negative effects on our body, in fact the moles on are body are skin mutations, that's why some moles contains wrong genetic information to develop hairs on wrong places!
Mutation have long been the driving the force behind evolution of life forms. Due to the changing of cell functions, some of the mutation might be beneficial to the organism's survival which it will then carry on to it's offspring! These parents that contains the mutation in their life time will only have special genetics on the mutated cells, however their mutated offspring will have the special genetics information on all their cells which will have a chance to be switched on in their life time.