Group and Mutation Time Taken to Collect Candy Time Taken to Eat Candy A Extra long nails 1 minute 3 seconds 8 minutes 12 seconds B No digits, hands paddle-like 15 seconds 7 minutes 18 seconds C Normal 22 seconds 2 minutess 44 seconds D Hands fused in front Did not collect 15 pieces. Ate 11 pieces: of body, no range of motion Collected 11 pieces 4 minutes 12 seconds E Webbing on hands and feet 11 minutes 45 seconds 17 minutes 12 seconds F No peripheral 3 minutes 2 seconds 2 minutes 52 conds Did not collect 15 pieces. Ate only 4 pieces: G Blind Collected 4 pieces in 4 minutes 1 minute 16 seconds H Short legs; normal number 55 seconds 3 minutes 2 seconds of digits on hands and feet The process of evolution involves changes in the genetic makeup of a population over a period of time. Sexual reproduction enhances variability among offspring. The random alteration of DNA from parent to offspring, called mutations, also produces variable characteristics in offspring. Some mutations can be helpful, while others can be harmful and hinder survival. In this experiment, students mimicked random mutations. Data was collected to determine if the mutations were helpful or harmful when trying to collect and eat food. Which mutation provided an advantage for food collecting, but was detrimental when it came to food eating?​

Science27 of the most iconic, jaw-dropping photos of the earth and the moon from spacedave mosher  oct 1, 2018, 11: 13 am etnasa/flickrapollo 11 astronauts took this photo of earth on july 20, 1969.from the ground, earth looks like a boundless fertile plain that beckons to be explored and exploited.but astronauts would beg -  and even plead  - to differ."you realize that people often say, 'i hope to go to heaven when i die,'" jim lovell, an astronaut who flew on the apollo 8 and apollo 13 missions to the moon, previously  told business insider. "in reality, if you think about it, you go to heaven when you're born."lovell has seen first-hand that we live on a tiny rock hopelessly lost in the void. he's also quick to tell you it's the only one we've got - a  fragile spaceship  for more than 7 billion people: "you arrive on a planet that has the proper mass, has the gravity to contain water and an atmosphere, which are the very essentials for life. and you arrive on this planet that's orbiting a star just at the right distance - not too far to be too cold, or too close to be too hot - and just at the right distance to absorb that star's energy and then, with that energy, cause life to evolve here in the first place. in reality, you know, god has really given us a stage, just looking at where we were around the moon, a stage on which we perform. and how that play turns out is up to us, i guess."humanity has recorded photos of earth from hundreds, thousands, millions, and even billions of miles away, some of them taken by lovell himself.these images not only scientists study our dynamic world, but also understand how a habitable planet looks from afar, which aids the search for  more worlds. most importantly, however, the images underscore our peculiar existence on  a mote of cosmic dust.take a moment to ponder 27 of the most arresting images of earth that humankind has ever captured from space.a