Video resource on Mutation

In this clip Alison looks at mutations, and their effect on cells, organisms, and evolution. A message is passed along a line of eight volunteers in a game of Chinese whispers. The message represents a gene or protein and the demonstration illustrates how mistakes can creep into that gene in each division, each time a volunteer passes the message along. This mistake is passed on to all subsequent daughter cells potentially drastically changing the characteristic of the cells.

Keywords: DNA, mutation, evolution

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