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Dr. Robert Verne:
A developing fetus goes through certain distinct phases. Each phase represents a specific stage of evolution. A human fetus, for instance. At one stage, it's a fish. It looks like a fish; it's got fins and gills. At another, it's amphibian - webbed hands; At another, reptilian; At another, it's feline - developing upward in the distinct shapes and phases of the evolutionary scale. If this chemical, methylmercury, adheres to the DNA - DNA's a chromosomal fixative - it could freeze certain parts at one evolutionary stage, while the other parts continue growing. A pregnant animal ingests the fish, and it corrupts the fetus to a point where it gives birth to a monster
A developing fetus goes through certain distinct phases. Each phase represents a specific stage of evolution. A human fetus, for instance. At one stage, it's a fish. It looks like a fish; it's got fins and gills. At another, it's amphibian - webbed hands; At another, reptilian; At another, it's feline - developing upward in the distinct shapes and phases of the evolutionary scale. If this chemical, methylmercury, adheres to the DNA - DNA's a chromosomal fixative - it could freeze certain parts at one evolutionary stage, while the other parts continue growing. A pregnant animal ingests the fish, and it corrupts the fetus to a point where it gives birth to a monster
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a developing fetus goes through certain distinct phases
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Each phase represents a specific stage of evolution
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A human fetus for instance
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at one stage it's a fish
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It looks like a fish
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It's got fins and gills
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At another it's amphibian webbed hands
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at another reptilian at another it's feline
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developing upward in the distinct shapes and phases
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of the evolutionary scale
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If this chemical
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methylmercury adheres to the DNA
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DNA's a chromosomal fixative
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Well it could freeze certain parts
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at one evolutionary stage
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while the other parts continue growing
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You follow
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Yes
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Uh a pregnant animal ingests the fish
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and it corrupts the fetus
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to the point where it gives birth to a monster
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Movie Summary
A government health inspector is dispatched to assess the damage a logging company is causing to a patch of forest claimed by Native Americans, and comes face to face with true terror wrecking havoc in the woods.
Actors
Dr. Robert Verne
Maggie
