Mutations Corrupt Information Already Present in a Species?

Mutations Corrupt Information Already Present in a Species?

Question by Beck: Mutations corrupt information already present in a species?
how can a fish transmutate into a monkey since they lose “fitness” each generation?
We don’t need opinions, just facts.

Best answer:

Answer by B Dash
A better question would be why can’t we take information away from animals and get their ancestral form? Unless of course, they didn’t gain information, but instead lost it as creationists expect.

Answer by Lisa
Mutations do not necessarily “corrupt” perse. Corrupt is a negative word and carries with it a connotation that it is not wanted.

May I point you to a nice biology book? Biology by Campbell and Reese. Any edition will do, I highly recommend the 7th ed.

You do not lose “fitness” per generation. It is the opposite. Darwin proposed that the animals “Best fit” TEND to survive and have children. He said TEND, because there are always exceptions and nothing is 100%. Just like the leopard, who is not particularly strong or fast in comparison to the cheetah or the tiger, still survives today because it is smart and cunning. Even though the leopard lives in close proximity to the cheetah and the tiger, it’s still here today – even though many people would think that it shouldn’t.

Answer by ReaperCushions
You certainly do need facts, don’t you? There are none in your question.

Answer by Fah king Genius
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

explain to me how this mutation….

http://www.trulyhuge.com/forum/602.html

caused a “loss of fitness”? this may, in fact, be the next step in human evolution.

Answer by Dreamstuff Entity is risen
“transmutate” = magic, not science.

And what do you mean by “lose fitness”???

It seems you don’t understand the basics of evolution.

Here, these sites should provide great starting points:

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/students/index.html

http://www.becominghuman.org/

http://www.talkorigins.org/

Answer by Blaise Pascal
Wow, you really are stupid, aren’t you? No worries, McDonalds always needs toilet scrubbers.

Answer by OO
“We don’t need opinions, just facts.”

Agreed. Substantiate your bogus absolute claim that mutations corrupt information already present in a species.

Answer by Leslie Goudy
It’s a fact that fish don’t transmute into monkey’s every generation. Read a basic biology book or bring this up on the internet you seem to have some really erroneous unless you are joking right?

Answer by BrokenEye Evoluted
Biology section is over thataway, in case you were wondering

Answer by Adam B
yes, exactly. and to the first poster we have them in their ancestral form, whatever that is, since they are the same as they have always been.

Answer by butter12420
go away…your stupidity is giving me a headache. and stop asking stupid questions you bigot.

Answer by No Magpie Without Chance
And your definition of “information” in the context of your question is…?

Answer by Lil’ Rascal
You’re obviously not interested in “facts” because you never wrap up your previous bullshyt “question” before making yet another wildly asinine remark … with your verbiage in THIS “question” it’s obvious that you DON’T know what you’re talking about …

… your parents must be proud.

Answer by Tommy
Why do they lose fitness?

Answer by Gorgeoustxwoman Go Spurs Go!
Biology has catalogued many traits produced by point mutations (changes at precise positions in an organism’s DNA)–bacterial resistance to antibiotics, for example.

Mutations that arise in the homeobox (Hox) family of development-regulating genes in animals can also have complex effects. Hox genes direct where legs, wings, antennae and body segments should grow. In fruit flies, for instance, the mutation called Antennapedia causes legs to sprout where antennae should grow. These abnormal limbs are not functional, but their existence demonstrates that genetic mistakes can produce complex structures, which natural selection can then test for possible uses.

Moreover, molecular biology has discovered mechanisms for genetic change that go beyond point mutations, and these expand the ways in which new traits can appear. Functional modules within genes can be spliced together in novel ways. Whole genes can be accidentally duplicated in an organism’s DNA, and the duplicates are free to mutate into genes for new, complex features. Comparisons of the DNA from a wide variety of organisms indicate that this is how the globin family of blood proteins evolved over millions of years.

Answer by No chance without healthy fur
I recognise this is some sort of ‘anti-evolution’ question, but:

1 Mutations don’t ‘corrupt information’
2 Fish don’t transmutate into monkeys
3 Fish don’t lose ‘fitness’ each generation.

So wtf are you trying to ask about?

Answer by ramans11
The genome of the single celled amoeba is bigger than a human’s genome by a factor of 690:2.9. So even by super stupid definition of mutation, an amoeba can mutate into a human.

Answer by Kristin ^_^
Okay.
First off: your question makes no sense.
When mutations occur in the genetic code they do not necessarily have any effect on the species as a whole. Most of the time mutations either decrease the life span of the affected individual, or affect it’s ability to pass its genetic material on to the next generation. In most cases the mutation dies with the affected individual. It’s only in the rare cases that the mutation increases the fitness of the individual that the mutated gene is passed on and eventually changes the genetic information present in the species.
Second off: your additional information does not have anything to do with your question, and makes no sense.
A fish cannot “transmute” into a monkey, as in “boom, one generation a fish, next generation a monkey”. I cannot think of a single case of that ever happening. The genetic code of a fish cannot be arranged in a way that would allow for the creation of a monkey. If this has happened, please let me know. That would be interesting. And species do not ‘lose fitness” every generation. Fitness is only lost when a trait that was formerly beneficial to the survival of the species is no longer useful to the species (for example: before the industrial revolution white was the favored major colour in peppered moths because it allowed them to blend into their surroundings. After the industrial revolution began, the trees they formerly used for camoflauge were coated with soot, making the few black moths more fit to survive in their environment. There fitness was lost in the white moths).

Hope this helps.

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