Are You a Mutant?
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Vsauce, I’m Jake and I’ve been thinking a lot about mutation, not just because of X-Men Apocalypse coming out but because I am a mutant...well at least part of me is. Cancer is a mutation of a cell, specifically the DNA inside the cell is damaged. That cell doesn’t stop dividing and growing and growing, faster and faster until we get a lump of cancer cells like this, a tumor, my tumor. Unfortunately it didn’t lead to me having any enhanced special abilities like mutations do in the world of X-Men. But that didn’t stop me from trying, I had to go to 8 weeks of radiation therapy, and if I’ve learned anything from comics, that exposure to radiation should have at least given me some sort of physically mutated power. It didn’t; but what I di...
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Vsauce, I’m Jake and I’ve been thinking a lot about mutation, not just because of X-Men Apocalypse coming out but because I am a mutant...well at least part of me is. Cancer is a mutation of a cell, specifically the DNA inside the cell is damaged. That cell doesn’t stop dividing and growing and growing, faster and faster until we get a lump of cancer cells like this, a tumor, my tumor. Unfortunately it didn’t lead to me having any enhanced special abilities like mutations do in the world of X-Men. But that didn’t stop me from trying, I had to go to 8 weeks of radiation therapy, and if I’ve learned anything from comics, that exposure to radiation should have at least given me some sort of physically mutated power. It didn’t; but what I di...
