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iceaura
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Old 11-13-09, 04:26 AM
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Originally Posted by zion
Mutations caused by ionizing radiation work through particular chemical processes - so they are still partially dependent on the DNA sequence and the contents of the cell. They are not 100% random.
hmmm. We are definitely dealing with a different notion of "random" than I became used to way back when.

Back then, one could make a "random" choice from a bag of marbles with quite unequal distributions of color among them. One could randomly flip a biased coin. There were various probability distributions, and a random selection from one simply meant that the probabilities of the choice were given by the distribution from which the selection was made.
Bishadi
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Old 11-13-09, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Hercules Rockefeller
Yes, I can imagine it now. In fact, such a thread involving Bishadi and thinking can be portrayed pictorially.....
well then open the thread

can you post without ranting?

(or even stay on topic?)







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Old 11-13-09, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by thinking
if what your saying that random mutations are " actually the fair proportion " of genetic mutations give an example of one then ?
Any of the assorted dog morphs. Hypertensive rats. Drosophila with legs growing out of their heads. And so and so on, ad infinitum.
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