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MutationMutation Mu*ta"tion, n. [L. mutatio, fr. mutare to change: cf.
F. mutation. See Mutable.]
Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.
The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are
no fit matter for this present argument. --Bacon. Mutation
Mutation Mu*ta"tion, n.
1. (Biol.) Gradual definitely tending variation, such as may
be observed in a group of organisms in the fossils of
successive geological levels.
2. (Biol.)
(a) As now employed (first by de Vries), a sudden
variation (the offspring differing from its parents in
some well-marked character or characters) as
distinguished from a gradual variations in which the
new characters become fully developed only in the
course of many generations. The occurrence of
mutations, and the hereditary transmission, under some
conditions, of the characters so appearing, are
well-established facts; whether the process has played
an important part in the evolution of the existing
species and other groups of organisms is a disputed
question.
(b) The result of the above process; a suddenly produced
variation.
Meaning of Mutation from wikipedia
- In biology, a
mutation is an
alteration in the
nucleic acid
sequence of the
genome of an organism, virus, or
extrachromosomal DNA.
Viral genomes contain...
-
Mutation testing (or
mutation analysis or
program mutation) is used to
design new
software tests and
evaluate the
quality of
existing software tests. Mutation...
- BRCA
mutation is a
mutation in
either of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes,
which are
tumour suppressor genes.
Hundreds of
different types of
mutations in these...
- Look up
mutation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
mutation is a
change in the
sequence of an organism's
genetic material.
Mutation or
mutate may...
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Mutationism is one of
several alternatives to
evolution by
natural selection that have
existed both
before and
after the
publication of
Charles Darwin's...
- delimiters.
Consonant mutation is
change in a
consonant in a word
according to its
morphological or
syntactic environment.
Mutation occurs in languages...
- are
called alleles. DNA
sequences can
change through mutations,
producing new alleles. If a
mutation occurs within a gene, the new
allele may
affect the...
- In genetics, a
missense mutation is a
point mutation in
which a
single nucleotide change results in a
codon that
codes for a
different amino acid. It is...
- A
point mutation is a
genetic mutation where a
single nucleotide base is changed,
inserted or
deleted from a DNA or RNA
sequence of an organism's genome...
- U-
mutation, or u-umlaut, can
refer to
various processes that
occurred in the
history of some
Germanic languages: Old
Norse u-umlaut,
allophones of non-rounded...
