The phrase
"deleterious changes" refers to negative or harmful alterations or effects on something.
Full definition
Eventually, this triggers errors in the ways our genes are interpreted — which ultimately contributes to
deleterious changes in cell function and structure.
She and others note that the Y has been able to keep its important genes through «purifying selection,» in
which deleterious changes are removed over time.
Second, about those «
deleterious changes» to blood lipids.
-LSB-...] There is now substantial empirical and clinical evidence to indicate that many of
these deleterious changes are directly related to the predominately cereal - based diets of these early farmers.
Even a minuscule amount in a cat can bring about facial swelling, edema (swelling) of the front legs and
some deleterious changes in the blood.