Mutating Plants The classical example of a mutating plant is the evening primrose of the species Oenothera lamarckiana.
Mutating Species It is our belief that many species of birds which occur in nature have been derived from other species which still exist, but as no one has ever seen the mutation take place, we cannot furnish any proof thereof.
We have yet to discover whether one mutation invariably leads to another along the same lines--in other words, whether mutating organisms behave as though they had behind them a force acting in a definite direction.
He has, we consider, proved conclusively that among plants mutations sometimes occur, and, further, that in a mutating plant the same mutation tends to occur again and again.
These instances would seem to indicate that cattle are what De Vries would call "in a mutating state" in that part of the world.
But the average wing-length of the offspring of the two mutating individuals will be 20 inches.
The great majority, however, are not at present in the mutating state.
We can, says De Vries, ascertain only by experiment which plants are in the mutating state and which are not.
The mutatinglines will probably sooner or later revert to the inactive state, while the powers of development now dormant may then become awakened on other branches.
It is obviously without consequence whether these deviations are of a fluctuating or of a mutating nature.
It is quite obvious that Oenothera lamarckiana was in a mutating condition when I first [700] saw it, seventeen years ago.
It is readily granted that the constant condition of species is the normal one, and that mutating periods must be the exception.
First of all it is evident that the real mutating period must be assumed to be much longer than the time covered by my observations.
Some lines may be mutating at the present moment; others may momentarily be constant.
More than twenty types could be distinguished and seeds were saved from a number of them, in order to ascertain whether they are constant, or whether perhaps a main stem in a mutating condition might be found among them.
There is no danger that lamarckiana might die out from the act of mutating, nor that the mutating strain itself would be exposed to ultimate destruction from this cause.
This pedigree at once exhibits the laws followed by the mutating species.
And if mutations in groups, or such periodic mutations should be the rule, it is to be premised that these periods recur from time to time, and that many species must even now be in mutating condition, while others are not.
From this discussion we may infer that the chances of discovering newmutating species are great enough to justify the utmost efforts to secure them.
The name mutations or mutating variability is then given to the changes in the specific characters.
Mutating portions distancing , approaching , amalgamating with main hub of the herd .
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