Frameshift Memes

Your DNA after gamma radiation exposure: "I'm about to do what's called a pro-frameshift move." Frameshift mutations are like that one friend who can't follow dance instructions - they just slide to the left when nobody asked them to! When gamma rays hit your genetic code, they don't politely ask before rearranging your nucleotides like furniture in a college dorm. The result? Your proteins come out looking like they were assembled by a toddler with a glue stick. Evolution spent billions of years perfecting that genetic code, and gamma radiation just goes "nah, I think I'll scramble this like breakfast eggs." And that's how you either die horribly or become a superhero, depending on whether you live in reality or a comic book universe!