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Main Entry:
mu·ta·tion
[
myoo-
tey
-sh
uh
n
]
/
myuˈteɪ
ʃən
/
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Main Entry:
mutation
Part of Speech:
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Main Entry:
mutation
Part of Speech:
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Example Sentences
The good news: They've identified the genetic
mutation
that makes that possible.
That's why there's so much worry about fallout: radiation increases the
mutation
rate— mistakes pile up.
And the source of variation is
mutation
.
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Noun
The good news: They've identified the genetic
mutation
that makes that possible.
That's why there's so much worry about fallout: radiation increases the
mutation
rate— mistakes pile up.
And the source of variation is
mutation
.
Every family member with the
mutation
had great difficulty speaking.
Still other research is concerned with the unpredictable
mutation
s that sometimes occur in viruses.
The human race is undergoing a massive cultural
mutation
.
As stated the other animals evolved in their own direction according to random
mutation
and natural selection.
Consider the case of a patient who is carrying a disease
mutation
.
If it's truly beneficial, the
mutation
stays and gets bred in to the species.
Only about 300 Americans suffer from that syndrome, an inflammatory condition caused by a gene
mutation
.
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mutation
Part of Speech:
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