- In biology, a
mutation is an
alteration in the
nucleic acid
sequence of the
genome of an organism, virus, or
extrachromosomal DNA.
Viral genomes contain...
-
single type of
mutation;
there are many
different types of
mutations.
Mutation rates are
given for
specific classes of
mutations.
Point mutations are a class...
- BRCA
mutation is a
mutation in
either of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes,
which are
tumour suppressor genes.
Hundreds of
different types of
mutations in these...
- A
frameshift mutation (also
called a
framing error or a
reading frame shift) is a
genetic mutation caused by
indels (insertions or deletions) of a number...
- A
point mutation is a
genetic mutation where a
single nucleotide base is changed,
inserted or
deleted from a DNA or RNA
sequence of an organism's genome...
- In genetics, a
nonsense mutation is a
point mutation in a
sequence of DNA that
results in a
nonsense codon, or a
premature stop
codon in the transcribed...
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Silent mutations, also
called synonymous or
samesense mutations, are
mutations in DNA that do not have an
observable effect on the organism's phenotype...
- delimiters.
Consonant mutation is
change in a
consonant in a word
according to its
morphological or
syntactic environment.
Mutation occurs in languages...
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Mutationism is one of
several alternatives to
evolution by
natural selection that have
existed both
before and
after the
publication of
Charles Darwin's...
- Look up
mutation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
mutation is a
change in the
sequence of an organism's
genetic material.
Mutation,
mutations, or mutate...
