Plymouth Elementary School first grade students celebrate the groundbreaking of the new Legoland Discovery Center at Plymouth Meeting Mall by playing in a pile of more than 50,000 Lego bricks spilled by a dump truck at the Oct. 25 ceremony. | Photo courtesy Legoland Discovery Center.
If this DNA has a mutation, the child that grows from the fertilized egg will have the mutation in each of his or her cells. Acquired (or somatic) mutations occur at some time during a personâs life and are present only in certain cells, not in every cell in the body.
Mutations are random changes in DNA. Most DNA does not actually come into play in building the organism's body so mutations in that DNA are neither helpful nor harmful. Mutations in the DNA that is used to build the organism's body are mostly harmful.utation is a change in the encoded hereditary information in living things and viruses. Whether or not it's good or bad depends on what the effects of it are. And even that is relative. Example: A plant grows with a new mutation, the ability to produce a more powerful toxin in it's seed pods.