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Definitions of mutation in various dictionaries:
noun - (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
noun - (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure
noun - a change or alteration in form or qualities
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| Hugo DeVries, who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity, also proposed this theory of altered genes |
| From Latin for "change", this type of change in DNA causes sickle cell anemia |
| In the early 1900s Dutch botanist Hugo De Vries proposed the theory of this alteration in genes |
| The X-Men know it's a change in a DNA molecule of a cell that's passed on to an offspring cell |
| In 1901 botanist Hugo de Vries coined this term to describe sudden genetic change |
| It's defined as a change in the hereditary material of an organism's cells |
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| Genetics A change of the DNA sequence within a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not found in the parental type. |
| Genetics The process by which such a change occurs in a chromosome, either through an alteration in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA coding for a gene or through a change in the physical arrangement of a chromosome. |
| Genetics A mutant. |
| Linguistics The change that is caused in a sound by its assimilation to another sound, such as umlaut. |
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In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements. * Mutations result from errors during DNA replication (especially during meiosis) or other types of damage to DNA (such as may be caused by exposure to radiation or carcinogens), which then may undergo error-prone repair (especially microhomology-mediated end joining), or cause an error during other forms of repair, or else may cause an error during replication (translesion synthesis). Mutations may also result from insertion or deletion of segments of DNA due to mobile genetic elements. Mutations may or may not produce discernible changes in the observable characteristics (phenotype) of an organism. Mutations play a part in both normal and abnormal biological processes including: evolution, cancer, and the development of the immune system, including junctional diversity. * The genomes of RNA viruses are based on RNA rather |