mutation

See also Mutation

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

mutation (plural mutations)

1. any alteration or change
2. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material
3. a mutant

Related terms

• macromutation
• micromutation
• mutate

Translations

heritable change in genetic material

Catalan: mutació (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 突變 (zh), 突变 (zh) (túbiàn), 變種 (zh), 变种 (zh) (biànzhǒng) Czech: mutace (cs) f. Danish: mutation (da) c. Finnish: mutaatio (fi) French: mutation (fr) f.

German: Mutation (de) f. Hungarian: mutáció (hu) Icelandic: stökkbreyting (is) f. Indonesian: mutasi (id) Japanese: 変異 (ja) (へんい, hen'i), 突然変異 (ja) (とつぜんへんい, totsuzenhen'i) Russian: мутация (ru) (mutácija) f. Scottish Gaelic: mùthadh (gd) m. Spanish: mutación (es) f.

mutant — see mutant

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French

Noun

mutation f. (plural mutations)

1. mutation

Related terms

• muter