radiation-induced mutation

Radiation-induced mutations can cause breast cancer, especially if exposed before age 30 years.

American Eagle's sensory organs have also been fortified by the radiation-induced mutation.

The incidence of radiation-induced mutations in humans is undetermined, due to flaws in studies done to date.

Blade thought of radiation-induced mutations.

He also possesses superhuman speed, agility, stamina, and sturdiness as a result of radiation-induced mutation.

The survivors of the blast suffer through radiation, nuclear winter, feuds between rival groups and radiation-induced mutations, eventually evolving into a new species, Homo superior.

Agricultural run-off of fertilisers, sewage, industrial waste, climate change, radiation-induced mutations.....??

Despite its sugary toylike quality, there is something scary about the tableau: it suggests a psychotic hallucination and the weird mushrooms bespeak the specter of radiation-induced mutation.

Like every astronaut, Norton had been sterilized when he entered the service; for a man who would spend years in space, radiation-induced mutation was not a risk - it was a certainty.

It must also be assumed, because of experiments on plants and animals, that ionising radiation can also cause genetic mutations that affect future generations, although there has been no evidence of radiation-induced mutation in humans.

At a time when science fiction was still dismissed as adolescent escapism by most academic critics, her first published story, in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in 1948, told of a mother's devotion to a baby horribly deformed by radiation-induced mutation.

A 1958 study of Drosophila by Wallace suggested that radiation-induced mutations increased the viability of previously homozygous flies, providing evidence for heterozygote advantage and the balance position; Wallace estimated that 50% of loci in natural Drosophila populations were heterozygous.