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
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and
nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar
words.