Word: deforming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...germ plasm for generations, like an infinitesimal time bomb, waiting to combine with a similar gene in a cell of the opposite sex. Then, reinforced, it makes its influence felt. Theoretically, a mutation may be beneficial, but most of them are not. Some mutations kill the developing embryo. Some deform or otherwise handicap the young organism...