Associations to the word «Mutation»

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.

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.