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Mutations caused by air pollution.

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(a) In a study by Quinn and colleagues, mice were kept in sheds with and without HEPA air filters in Hamilton, Ontario. (b) The study concluded that mice kept in the filterless sheds inhaled airborne particles into their lungs, and compounds from the particles induced genetic mutations that were transmitted through the sperm cells into the next generation.
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