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To: Coleus
a mutation is less genetic information and results in disease.

Not always.
Sometimes the change in a single nucleotide will still code for the
same amino acid...hence you can (if lucky) have a mutation that
is "silent"...and would go unnoticed, but for sequencing of the
DNA sequence of the gene from other people without the mutation.
14 posted on 05/21/2006 8:29:08 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA

I saw a thing on film recently in which a reporter asked Richard Dawkins if he could name a single case of a mutation which resulted in an increase in information, and the guy was totally stumped; he just sat there with a dumb look on his face for a whole minute or thereabouts.


17 posted on 05/22/2006 4:06:23 AM PDT by tomzz
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