Centers on Maddie, a party girl and a highly functioning addict who makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a rehab facility, while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life.
In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.
Point mutation. A point mutation is a genetic mutation in the form of insertion / deletion (indels) or substitution to a single nucleotide base in a sequence of DNA or RNA. Point mutations have a variety of effects on the downstream protein product - consequences that are moderately predictable based the specifics of the mutation.