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Having learned that cancer is just cells with bad genetic mutations ... in an adult body, what portion of the "normal" cells is genetically identical to the genes endowed at birth? How commonplace and how persistent is mutation? Are we filled with innocuous mutants?

by /u/thefourthchipmunk in /r/askscience

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