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Deleterious

Deleterious

Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleterious plant or quality; a deleterious example. Deleteriously, Deleteriousness.

Origin: LL. Deleterius noxious, gr, fr. To hurt, damage; prob. Akin to L. Delere to destroy.


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Inter species breeding with fertile offspring

If you death because of deleterious mutations, or disappearance of a harmful or useless trait then you see NS it has been shown in another thread that harmful genes are being transmitted when NS says they should be become rare but in ...

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by gamila
Mon Jul 27, 2009 1:13 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Inter species breeding with fertile offspring
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Re: Inter species breeding with fertile offspring

... do is watch two male whales sparring for breeding rights and you see NS. If you see extinction you in some cases see NS. If you death because of deleterious mutations, or disappearance of a harmful or useless trait then you see NS. But NS as a sole mechanism for evolution is wrong as it can add ...

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by AFJ
Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:07 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Inter species breeding with fertile offspring
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Views: 547

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... agents, which again means that just a proportion of these genetic elements get eliminated from the gene pool. On a long run they just aren't deleterious enough to disappear completely - if viewed on a species level. Finally, some of the conditions are caused by point mutations, deletions, ...

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by biohazard
Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:56 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Views: 16276

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... has become more acute as recent studies in developmental biology make clear that mutations expressed early in development typically have severely deleterious effects, including mutations in crucially important "master regulator" or hox genes. The problem has led to what geneticist John ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:47 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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Natural selection is proven wrong

... does not invalidate NS. The fact is the gene for breast cancer kills Young women mums and grandmother. It is an abuse of language to say such a deleterious gene which kills all ages of women is not bad or unfavorable Some argue that NS or survival only matters up to the point where you survive ...

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by gamila
Wed Apr 22, 2009 12:31 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16276
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