Quote Originally Posted by King Malcolm
Collisions are not like the lottery numbers. And, hypothetically, if you knew the exact temperature of the room, weight of the balls, time between balls releasing and balls selecting, and God knows what else, one could predict the lottery numbers. Collisions can be predicted, they are not like the lottery numbers.
1) Technically: I can't exactly remember Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. From what I remember, you cannot predict the location and momentum of an object at the same time. You can get close to the location at the expense of momentum You can get close to the momentum at the expense of certainty of its location.

Since momentum = mass x velocity, the bigger the mass the bigger the momentum, hence less the certainty on it's location. The smaller the mass, the less certainty on it's momentum.

2) You just said you know that genetic mutation is random.

I know that genetic mutation is random
Well, you're saying you can also predict genetic mutation, since physical collisions cause molecular changes. When I say random, I mean it happens randomly.

Yeah, I don't know what this means.
That's ok. Dna is made up of small units called nucleotides. These nucleotides are differentiated by their bases: Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine.

Coding in dna works in triplets, hence the "triplet code". These triplets eventually code for a specific Amino Acids (a basic unit of protein). Say, a small chunk of dna code is this:

GCA-CAC (coding for Alanine and Histidine).

The Cytosine is replaced by Guanine. Now you have:

GCA-CAG (coding for Alanine and Glutamine). The protein is now slightly changed.

You can also have deletions and additions. As you can imagine this "frameshift" will also change the codes.

Increase the risk of cancer, then.
Definitely.

When I say host, I only mean the living thing to which the genes are a part, possibly like a symbiot (sp) and host, one cannot exist without the other.
Symbiosis means two separate organisms, but your dna is instrinsic to you as you are instrinsic to your dna.

The concept of a "good" gene and a "bad" gene is defined in the book, and takes about half a chapter to define, so I shall leave it to you to read.
The words are very broad, it can mean anything.

Sorry, I meant that mutation in beings, as in survival of the most well adapted. This mutation is not random. I know that genetic mutation is random
Mutation occurs in the genetic level, see above. The phenotypic change arising from this we can seen in the traits.

No, that's definitely wrong. If the blue-colour gene is recessive, and two brown-coloured insects both have the blue-colour gene, then their offspring has a chanc of being blue
That is correct, specifically, 25 percent chance. But, 75% brown.