Associations to the word «Mutation»

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 most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King