If evolution is based on cell mutation and defective gene theorys then?

Question

why is it that mutated animals can't survive in the wild?Albino animals are picked off by predators very quickly and any mutations I have seen pic's of are all definatly against the advancement of the species. Wouldn't evolution ( If True) show advanced mutations that would help a species survive and not hinder it like what I am seeing?
Please Explain.

if it takes millions of years to have a mutation that works and the earth is millions of years old then why are we seeing mutations today that don't help. After all , mutations have supposidly had millions of years to be perfected so species should be able to mutate perfectly to their environments. Right?

Answer 1

I read a lot of reasoning here but you are right. Gene mutation is not beneficial and any biologist will tell you so. Most of modern medicine is aimed at the correction or eradication of gene mutation. It looks good on paper and it gets the research grants but past that is garbage.

Answer 2

Most mutations are not beneficial, but some are. This is where natural selection comes into play: the unfavorable mutations get weeded out; the beneficial ones survive. Since mutations are largely random, if you have a separation of populations, the two populations would be expected to evolve somewhat differently. This is seen in the case of Australia, which broke away from the Pangaea supercontinent before the other continents did, and has had longer to evolve different species. This is why oddities such as kangaroos are found there but not elsewhere. The theory of evolution is now a proven fact (details on request).

Answer 3

You can quit waving your ignorance flag, everyone with an education has seen it. Questions just do not get much more stupid than this one.

Your question is not even about evolution – but you thought that it was, huh?
ROTFLMAO

It is the selection against the albino animals you mention where you see evolution at work – not in the creation and manifestation of genetic traits.

Are you really that scientifically illiterate?

How can you critique something if you do not know what it is or what it does?

What characteristic is it, do you think, that makes you anti-science people think you are informed and knowledgeable when the truth is that you do not have a clue? You do not even know the definitions of the words you are using.

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Here are some examples of beneficial mutations being naturally selected for by evolution –

Every species of every living organism currently alive.

Whether they remain advantageous, only time (and evolution) will tell.

Answer 4

Why is this so hard to understand?

Because not all mutations are good mutations.

For example...

Before the Industrial Revolution in London, the trees were light colored, therefore the moths were lightcolored because the birds couldn't easily see the moths on the bark so that genetic trait was able to be passed onto the next generation while the dark colored moths were eaten quickly before it could pass onto the next generation (usually). The dark color was a bad genetic mutation.

During the Industrial Revolution, the soot in the air turned the trees black so the lightcolored moths stood out and were more easily seen by the birds who ate them. Eventually, the trunks got dark enough so that the light colored moths were eaten before the gene could be passed on (usually) to the next generation and black became the predominant color of the moths.

Now, imagine if something really abnormal happened during a genetic mutation. Like there was a moth that was born orange instead of white or black, what do you think would happen? The moth would stand out easily and probably be eaten the soonest because it wasn't a good mutation and the birds could see it easily no matter what.

But lets say something really wrong happened during genetic replication and the moth was developed without lungs and with gills. That moth would die before it was ever born. Thats why you get still borns and why most fetilized eggs never fully begin to develop.

Not all genetic mutations are good ones and pass onto the next generation.

Edit: The earth is NOT millions of years old, it's BILLIONS of years old. A billion is alot more than a million.

Evolution doesn't just suddenly stop. We're seeing bad mutations still because we haven't stopped changing just because we'd like to think we have. Evolution is still happening.

Answer 5

the examples you are using are mutations that are NOT more beneficial to the survival of the animal. Not all mutations are beneficial to the species, and only those that help the animal survive are passed on because that animal is more capable of survival to reproduce and pass on those traits.

As for your update.....it is completely wrong. It takes millions of years for a mutations to accumulate to the point where they form a new species, but it does not take millions of years for a single mutation to become prevalent among a species. This is why you need a flu vaccine every year even though you had one the year before. The virus evolves incredibly quickly, and becomes resistant to previous vaccines in a matter of months. This is evolution at work. The virus does not become a DIFFERENT virus (in other words it is not a new species), but the evolution of the virus through adaptation and mutation make it capable of becoming resistant to vaccines very quickly.

Answer 6

you have seen mutations help species survive. you just cant recognize them because they are part of the animal. the long eye lashes of a camel help keep the sand out of its eyes, opposible thumbs help primates hold tools, the large wingspan of the albatross help it cover great distances with little effort, and etc. you only hear of mutations that cause genetic diseases more often because they are not part of the norm. mutated animals can survive in the wild, its all whether or not the mutation helps them or not.

Answer 7

all my people or large healthy good looking & smart people.all my men relatives or over 6ft .I am 6ft8'320 lbs 16eee feet,my brother is the same.large tall people make on the average 32% more money then shorter people. I can wear my grandfathers coats.certain creatures or superior.and make life what they wish to, and don't have to depend on nature to supply their needs.
But some creatures depend on others .and when their different then their picked on and mostly do die.or taken by preditors,but every once in a while a creature will be different and better and smarter and will make it and send on their genes into the population changeing it for the better.this is not evolution.Its a bettering of that partucular species

Answer 8

That's exactly the point. Natural selection means that those mutations you speak of, will be picked off by predators and won't pass on their characteristics. While those that do have positive mutations (much more rare) have a better chance of survival and a better chance at having more offspring, thereby passing on those genes.

Answer 9

Evolution is not based on a defective gene theory.
What you describe is more like the survival of the fittest theory.That is why the predators pick off the defective(sick) or slowest prey first.Albinos are not necessarily the weakest in a herd.

Answer 10

Evolution is based on mixing the genes of two sucessful parents. It has NOTHING to do with random mutation from cosmic rays.

Take a class or something. Evolution exists, it is a fact. The only question is, when did it start. Was it after man was created or has it alway been.

Answer 11

Read ANYTHING by Dawkins. Every zygote contains mutations, 1 in a billion will prove to be useful and even then it might disappear through accident. Just do some reading!

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And stop digging, your additional comments are completely the opposite of natural selection. If you seriously want to know read The Blind Watchmaker by Dawkins, I doubt you will get round to it.