Friday, February 6, 2015

Reintroduction, mutation, Chernobyl – St. Petersburg and the World

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The biologist Sergey Gashchak of Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology said that Chernobyl began to revive.

Despite earlier fears of environmentalists, the animals do not become a horrible mutants, and look much better than their compatriots living in other forests.

In the region returned to unique species of animals and birds. An increasing number of elk, deer, wolves, lynx, raccoon dogs, wild boar, and the Przewalski horses, which were brought here in the nineties. According to biologist Sergei Gashchak, exclusion zone is a very real nature reserve.

«Chernobyl is waiting for the high variability of the animal world, though flying crocodiles there does not appear,” – said the biologist, stressing that the mutants in Chernobyl will not appear.

In the 1990s in Russia successfully carried out a program for the reintroduction of animals in the Bryansk forests, and this contributed to the arrival of bears in the area.

Mutation (lat. mutatio – change) – persistent (ie, one that can be inherited by the descendants of the cell or organism) genotype transformation occurring under the influence of external or internal environment. A term coined by Hugo de Vries. The process of mutations is called mutagenesis.

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