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Friday, 16. July 2004
2012, July 16, 2004 at 9:47:00 AM AEST

Radiation affects next generation

Which means there could be a link between a sudden increase in radiation, and rapid evolution...

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Concern over the harmfulness of plutonium is growing because of discoveries about the subtle effects of low-level radiation. Researchers in Europe and North America have shown that the descendants of cells that seem to survive radiation unharmed can suffer delayed damage, a phenomenon called "genomic instability"

...And an increase was found in the number of mutations in small pieces of DNA called mini-satellites that are passed from one generation to the next.

Source: New Sceintist


  
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