mutation
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Although scientists understand many of the mutations that lead to tumor formation, no single genetic change explains why some cells break away and migrate while others remain in place.
From Science Daily
Small mutations can have a big impact on the behaviour of the bacterium.
From BBC
One of these, nonhomologous end joining, rapidly reconnects broken DNA strands but can introduce mutations.
From Science Daily
This could eventually lead to treatments that target the same mutations in both cats and humans.
From Science Daily
In 2020, it ordered the culling of all roughly 17 million farm-raised mink in Denmark to stop the spread of a coronavirus mutation, a directive it later admitted had no legal grounds.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
