Mutation

What do we mean by mutation?

The act or process of being altered or changed. noun

An alteration or change, as in nature, form, or quality. noun

A change in the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism or virus, sometimes resulting in the appearance of a new character or trait not found in the parental type. noun

The process by which such a change occurs, either through an alteration in the nucleotide sequence coding for a gene or through a change in the physical arrangement of the genetic material. noun

The nucleotide sequence, trait, or individual that results from such a change. noun

A change affecting a sound or a class of sounds, such as back vowels or plosive consonants, through assimilation to another sound, as in the process of umlaut. noun

A change affecting a sound or a class of sounds that is conditioned by morphological or syntactic factors rather than purely phonological factors, as in Irish, where certain words cause the lenition of the initial consonants of the following word. noun

The act or process of changing; change; variableness. noun

Rotation; succession. noun

In phonetics, the change of a vowel through the influence of an a, i, or u in the following syllable: proposed for rendering German umlaut into English. noun

In music: noun

In medieval solmization, the change or passage from one hexachord to another, involving a change of the syllable applied to a given tone. noun

In violin-playing, the shifting of the hand from one position to another. noun

The change or alteration in a boy's voice at puberty. noun

In French law, transfer by purchase or descent. noun

A post-house. noun

In biology: noun

A sudden and inheritable change of type; a discontinuous variation; a sport. noun

Any alteration or change.

Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.

A mutant.

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.

A group of thrushes.

Words that are spelled similarly to mutation:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word mutation:
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Words that rhyme with mutation:
communication, information, operation, education, implication, station, innovation, organization, application, foundation, consideration, accommodation, association, relation, connotation, aberration, corporation, aspiration, orientation, remuneration, consternation, correlation, alliteration, administration, trepidation, obligation, discrimination, generation, reconciliation, inspiration, situation, revelation, evaluation, determination, civilization, nation, vacation, collaboration, radiation, motivation, integration, abomination, precipitation, appreciation, gentrification, dissertation, collocation, designation, interpretation, compensation, ramification, conversation, configuration, proliferation, expectation, manifestation, indignation, litigation, cooperation, notation, inclination, pronunciation, anticipation, deviation, implementation, approbation, sensation, altercation, constellation, affirmation, remediation, reputation, transportation, vocation, obfuscation, representation, medication, transformation, translation, conservation, adaptation, presentation, population, conflagration, reservation, dedication, citation, salvation, rehabilitation, location, meditation, preparation, observation, segregation, articulation, variation, abbreviation, quotation, edification, mitigation.

Adjectives that are often used to describe mutation:
somatic, genetic, single, new, spontaneous, dominant, random, recessive, novel, null, common, specific, second, lethal, induced, full, particular, homozygous, original, autosomal, recurrent, heterozygous, targeted, sensitive, back, adaptive, ras, reverse, linked, deleterious, fresh, rare, sickle, double, structural, mitochondrial, frequent, sudden, initial, causing, neutral, silent, line, negative, directed, germinal, insertional, pathogenic, forward, consonant, beneficial, soft, unique, point, biological, constant, causative, nuclear, conditional, bacterial, favorable, identical, rapid, fragile, uniform, endless, frameshift, familial, strange, site, radical, cystic, gaussian, regulatory, advantageous, sporadic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective mutation:
selection, carriers, rate, model, theory, rates, hypothesis, accumulation, drift, frequency, pressure, balance, screening, analysis, detection, induction, breeding, frequencies, test, operator, females, specific, assays, process, generating, studies, mechanisms, temporelle, based, environments, assay, mink, males, equation, experiments, inducing, dose, alleles, doubling, equilibrium, testing, tests, mechanism, kindreds, survival, producing.

Words that sound like mutation:
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