Hypotheses which have been suggested as the cause of the disaster include unsafe speed, an insurance scam, an ice-pack rather than an iceberg, and even a curse on the ship by the Unlucky Mummy.
Sorting type: |. Confirmed Beta Level Mutants. A character can only be added to this category if they have a reference for when they were 'outed' as a Beta.
No evidence of a structural mutation of beta-galactosidase was found (Hoeksema et al., 1980). In normal cells and GM1-gangliosidosis cells, beta-galactosidase has a half-life of about 10 days, whereas in the doubly deficient cells it has a half-life of less than 1 day.