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I would consider mutagenesis to be a special case of mutation -- buzco
The statement that mutagenesis is "the driving force of evolution." is a bit strong. IMHO, "is considered to be the driving ..." or even "is considered to be a driving ...". Consider genetic drift for instance. Also there are some (probably all or mostly all outside the citadel of Established Science) that are not at all sure that "evolution of species" is entirely mechanical or randomly driven.
BTW, the phrase evolution of species is more correct than the simple word evolution. Evolution of species is a special case. -- buzco
I disagree that this article should be merged into Mutation. Mutagenesis should be considered as the methods in which to obtain specific mutations used in protein engineering. There are numerous different methods used in modern industry which would make up a lot of material for an article on its own. I'll start it up after I've worked out a system on the Swedish article on the same theme, but if someone want to start the article out, I'd be happy. Axelve 18:35, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I believe the two are seperate terms and each is deserving of its own article as each has differing relevances, though related, they're difference things, intrinsically. So, I agree with Axelve
-- lincalinca 09:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it is probably worth giving mutagenesis its own page to cover the subtopic of how mutations arise, distinct from the mutation page which is mostly spent classifying mutation types.
I took the word "heritable" out of the definition since not all mutations are heritable e.g. cancer can be caused by somatic mutagenesis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.171.7.39 ( talk) 13:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
The article lists six types of mutagenesis, with links to separate articles for all but the first one, which is defined here. This is a poor organization. I leave it to better informed editors on this subject to decide how to correct this situation. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:33, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Two complaints: First, "Targeted mutagenesis" redirects to "site-directed mutagenesis", so they probably shouldn't be listed as separate links. Not sure if this was a recent edit that no one noticed yet, but it's a little confusing. Second, someone said that this article should be incorporated into the article on mutation. I think it's good to have a separate article on mutagenesis as a scientific technique, in contrast to mutation as a general process, but we have to have it be more informative about the methodologies and perhaps have links to things like EMS and X-ray mutagenesis. It's kind of an important method in genetics, and deserves a better article. I'm a bio major, but I don't have the time to do it right now and i'm a bit of a noob on wikipedia editing. --AnonymousUser5 —Preceding unsigned comment added by AnonymousUser5 ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I have created a separate page for mutagenesis as a laboratory technique in molecular biology in Mutagenesis (molecular biology). That page can be further expanded to give a more in-depth treatment of its use in molecular biology (it is one of the most important techniques in molecular biology), while this page will be reserved for the general process of mutagenesis where more details about the various mechanisms by which mutagenesis occurs can be added. Mutation and mutagenesis should also be kept separate because mutagenesis is an important subject on its own. Hzh ( talk) 15:51, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
My review of this article is below. I will suggest a list of major and minor revisions and begin on those later this spring Dabs ( talk) 15:25, 9 March 2023 (UTC)I
This article has some bright spots but generally its a mess with a low content/length ratio. It often repeats basic knowledge found in other articles, and is full of statements that lack context, and statement that are misleading or wrong. The organization and the topic headings often are not justified by the content. The history section is irrelevant and is copied from another wikipedia article.
Given the existence of other articles on Wikipedia, I think it would be smart to focus this article mainly on mutation as the genetic perturbation of a biological system, characterized by the structure of the change, and by its effects, with suitable examples given along the way, as distinct from (1) mutation as the mechanistic consequence of DNA replication and repair or (2) mutation as a process that contributes to evolution. That is, given a biological system with an inheritable component, there are some enumerable ways to change the inheritable component, and these have some known and unknown consequences to consider for this article.
Material to deconvolute or keep separate vis a vis other articles
Material to integrate into target article
Material to carve off into a separate article
Error-prone replication bypass (sub-heading of Causes)
Errors introduced during DNA repair (sub-heading of Causes)
Induced mutation (sub-heading of Causes)
Germline mutation.
Somatic mutation
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I would consider mutagenesis to be a special case of mutation -- buzco
The statement that mutagenesis is "the driving force of evolution." is a bit strong. IMHO, "is considered to be the driving ..." or even "is considered to be a driving ...". Consider genetic drift for instance. Also there are some (probably all or mostly all outside the citadel of Established Science) that are not at all sure that "evolution of species" is entirely mechanical or randomly driven.
BTW, the phrase evolution of species is more correct than the simple word evolution. Evolution of species is a special case. -- buzco
I disagree that this article should be merged into Mutation. Mutagenesis should be considered as the methods in which to obtain specific mutations used in protein engineering. There are numerous different methods used in modern industry which would make up a lot of material for an article on its own. I'll start it up after I've worked out a system on the Swedish article on the same theme, but if someone want to start the article out, I'd be happy. Axelve 18:35, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
I believe the two are seperate terms and each is deserving of its own article as each has differing relevances, though related, they're difference things, intrinsically. So, I agree with Axelve
-- lincalinca 09:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it is probably worth giving mutagenesis its own page to cover the subtopic of how mutations arise, distinct from the mutation page which is mostly spent classifying mutation types.
I took the word "heritable" out of the definition since not all mutations are heritable e.g. cancer can be caused by somatic mutagenesis. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.171.7.39 ( talk) 13:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
The article lists six types of mutagenesis, with links to separate articles for all but the first one, which is defined here. This is a poor organization. I leave it to better informed editors on this subject to decide how to correct this situation. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:33, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
Two complaints: First, "Targeted mutagenesis" redirects to "site-directed mutagenesis", so they probably shouldn't be listed as separate links. Not sure if this was a recent edit that no one noticed yet, but it's a little confusing. Second, someone said that this article should be incorporated into the article on mutation. I think it's good to have a separate article on mutagenesis as a scientific technique, in contrast to mutation as a general process, but we have to have it be more informative about the methodologies and perhaps have links to things like EMS and X-ray mutagenesis. It's kind of an important method in genetics, and deserves a better article. I'm a bio major, but I don't have the time to do it right now and i'm a bit of a noob on wikipedia editing. --AnonymousUser5 —Preceding unsigned comment added by AnonymousUser5 ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
I have created a separate page for mutagenesis as a laboratory technique in molecular biology in Mutagenesis (molecular biology). That page can be further expanded to give a more in-depth treatment of its use in molecular biology (it is one of the most important techniques in molecular biology), while this page will be reserved for the general process of mutagenesis where more details about the various mechanisms by which mutagenesis occurs can be added. Mutation and mutagenesis should also be kept separate because mutagenesis is an important subject on its own. Hzh ( talk) 15:51, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
My review of this article is below. I will suggest a list of major and minor revisions and begin on those later this spring Dabs ( talk) 15:25, 9 March 2023 (UTC)I
This article has some bright spots but generally its a mess with a low content/length ratio. It often repeats basic knowledge found in other articles, and is full of statements that lack context, and statement that are misleading or wrong. The organization and the topic headings often are not justified by the content. The history section is irrelevant and is copied from another wikipedia article.
Given the existence of other articles on Wikipedia, I think it would be smart to focus this article mainly on mutation as the genetic perturbation of a biological system, characterized by the structure of the change, and by its effects, with suitable examples given along the way, as distinct from (1) mutation as the mechanistic consequence of DNA replication and repair or (2) mutation as a process that contributes to evolution. That is, given a biological system with an inheritable component, there are some enumerable ways to change the inheritable component, and these have some known and unknown consequences to consider for this article.
Material to deconvolute or keep separate vis a vis other articles
Material to integrate into target article
Material to carve off into a separate article
Error-prone replication bypass (sub-heading of Causes)
Errors introduced during DNA repair (sub-heading of Causes)
Induced mutation (sub-heading of Causes)
Germline mutation.
Somatic mutation