Whales have what seem like remnants of a pelvis and femur, What are these structures an example of?
transitional structures
analogous structures
vestigial structures
adapted structures

small, big, or no change could occur in the phenotype. it could cause something as simple as a cats ears to curl backwards or something as frighting as death. it could also occur in the protien-coding area and have an effect on that but no effect on the amino acids. what has to occur is a changing in the hox gene or the control gene.

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.

i think that is new experiments yield untrustworthy data and should be carefully considered, because you don't know what will happen with the experiments.