Associations to the word «Mutation»
Noun
- Phenotype
- Deletion
- Allele
- Gene
- Genes
- Chromosome
- Nucleotide
- Mutant
- Syndrome
- Sequencing
- Dna
- Replication
- Subunit
- Tyrosine
- Insertion
- Duplication
- Genome
- Substitution
- Deficiency
- Locus
- Collagen
- Carcinoma
- Kinase
- Polymerase
- Receptor
- Germ
- Genetics
- Genetic
- Tumor
- Susceptibility
- Retardation
- Defect
- Mrna
- Abnormality
- Protein
- Ras
- Accumulation
- Phosphorylation
- Crossover
- Degeneration
- Assay
- Cancer
- Apoptosis
- Amplification
- Epilepsy
- Leukemia
- Onset
- Anemia
- Residue
- Alteration
- Rna
- Signaling
- Enzyme
- Disorder
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
MUTATION, noun. Any alteration or change.
MUTATION, noun. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
MUTATION, noun. A mutant.
MUTATION, noun. (linguistics) An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
MUTATION, noun. (rare) A collective noun for a collection of thrushes.
Dictionary definition
MUTATION, noun. (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration.
MUTATION, noun. (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism.
MUTATION, noun. A change or alteration in form or qualities.
Wise words
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could
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sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had
this power.