Therefore more than 10 12 E. coli genes mutate daily inside humanity.

When these active genes mutate, we see changes in the body.

Approximately 26 different genes can mutate in one type of lung cancer known as adenocarcinoma.

If the gene has changed or mutated in some way, your body's reaction to microbes may also be different from the normal reaction.

New forms of disease will continue to emerge as bacteria and viruses evolve, genes mutate and our environment changes.

So, the thinking went, those genes should mutate freely, obliterating their ability to produce the equipment needed to fly.

Carroll Nash (1984) reported that human subjects could use their psychokinetic ability to influence the rate at which bacterial genes mutate.

As the genes mutate, the cells grow into a benign tumor, then a malignant one, and then spread through the body.

Petz's genes carry through to their offspring but can mutate, resulting in different fur and eye colors to that of the parents.

In real life, the probability that a gene will mutate is often less than one in a million.