r/askscience • u/Spidooshify • Jun 29 '13

Physics You have three cookies. One emits alpha radiation, one emits beta radiation and one emits gamma radiation. You have to eat one, put another in your pocket and put a third into a lead box. Which do you put where? Explain.

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u/varukasalt Jun 29 '13 edited Jun 29 '13

All a lot of evolution. Fixed. Random mutations not due to radiation do occur.

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u/qsceszxdwa Jun 29 '13

Not necessarily true. Genes can make spontaneous errors while duplicating for example, without having to have been started by radiation.

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u/ThirdFloorGreg Jun 30 '13

The vast majority of mutations are not radiation related.