"What's genetic mutation?" "Ummmmmm...when the genes mutate?" WRONG

  Heyyyyyyyyyyyy... It's me! Back with a super awesome blog post about genetic mutation. Now, this blog is gonna have alot of stuff in it, so I hope you can keep up. Today I'll be telling you about a very special man. VERY special. They call him "The Elephant Man". Spoooooooky, right? Well, in the video below, I'll tell you about him. Soooooooo.... Let's get this show on the road!

  Like my picture? Hee hee... ok so genetic mutation... GO LOOK IT UP. Haha just kidding! Now for the definition:

Genetic Mutation: any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism

BORING, now for my definition:

Genetic Mutation: Changes to a cell's DNA or RNA.

Better? Hope that makes it a little easier to understand. Now let me tell you a story:

  Once upon a time, there was a happy couple. they had been married for five years, and their baby was due in 2 weeks. 2 WEEKS LATER OH NOES!! The baby has sickle-cell anemia! But wait... how did that happen? Mom didn't have sickle-cell anemia, and neither did Dad. Uh-oh. This is because sickle cell anemia cannot be passed down through genes, so the baby got it on his own. Darn genes!



   There are many genetic mutations; most of them are bad. There's down syndrome, sickle cell anema, (of course), and so many others.

There's also another kind. A very mysterious kind. A kind man has yet to discover. What is this?, you ask. Its the disease of.... THE ELEPHANT MAN!!!! (There was a video, but it disappeared) :(

      Joeseph Merrick was born August 5th, 1862 in England. As he aged, his mom started noticing things wrong with him. his hands were too big, or his head was abnormally sized. Trns out, his mom was right. Hos right hand was almost un-usable, and the right side of his head was 4x larger than it needed to be. He had to sleep sitting up, or his head would crush him. But, on April 11th, 1890, he was found dead, lying down. His head's weight was so big, it crushed well, him. Sad story, isn't it?

 

  So, that was the elephant man. No one really knows what happened, but were sure it was a genetic mutation, which keads me to these. These are some types of genetic mutation. In this case, the letters act like genes:

Normal gene:

Bob ran up the hill. 

Deletion gene: 

Bob ran u the hill

Insertion: 

Bob ran up the big hill

Shifted:

Bo bra nup th ehi l

I thinks that's kinda cool! Okay, so I think thta's enough for this blog post. Remember, elephant man, you can get genetic mutation by mom and dad, or by "luck". Okay, so SUPERSARASUPERBYE!!!! :DDDDDDD