Question

If you wanted to grow gills to breathe underwater, can you mutate to grow gills?


No


Yes

Answer 1

No, you cannot mutate to grow gills to breathe underwater. While certain organisms have evolved gills over millions of years through the process of natural selection, humans and other terrestrial mammals cannot spontaneously develop such adaptations within a single lifetime. Evolutionary changes require genetic variations that occur over generations, not individual mutations.