Mutations have worked hard over the last few millennia to turn us from bacteria into complex sentient life forms capable of writing on a world-wide electronic net. The basics. And for all that hard work they usually only get press only when we hear about cancers and genetic diseases, but they can not be all bad; lets not forget that we are who we are today because of them. If a mutation was inherited from either you father's sperm or your mother egg it is a hereditary mutation. A somatic mutation occurs in body cells and can not be inherited because the genes in the faulty cell have nothin...
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