What Is a Mutant A bomb goes off Pow The explosion causes a change deep inside Dr Bruce Banner’s body He becomes the Hulk Hulk is a mutant He carries a mistake in his genes Mutants are not just in comic books In real life mutations make strange plants and animals Animals may grow body parts in crazy places Plants turn weird colors 4
5 A mistake in this deer’s genes makes it half white
Cells are the building blocks of living things They carry your genes Genes are the directions for making living things They help determine everything about you They make you a boy or girl They decide your hair and eye color And when things go wrong with genes strange things happen 7 Genes are like a code for what you will look like Sometimes that code can have mistakes
