This document presents Coal Township's Comprehensive Plan. It was prepared in. accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (Act 170 of 1988). By adoption. of this Comprehensive Plan by Coal Township's Board of Commissioners, it becomes the official.
1 A mutagen is a substance or agent that causes an increase in the rate of change in genes (subsections of the DNA of the body's cells).
Mutagenesis /mjuËtÉËdÊÉnÉªsÉªs/ is a process by which the genetic information of an organism is changed in a stable manner, resulting in a mutation. It may occur spontaneously in nature, or as a result of exposure to mutagens.NA damage is an abnormal alteration in the structure of DNA that cannot, itself, be replicated when DNA replicates. In contrast, a mutation is a change in the nucleic acid sequence that can be replicated; and hence a mutation can be inherited from one generation to the next.