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...
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Mutation testing (or mutation analysis or program mutation) is used to design new software tests and evaluate the quality of existing software tests. Mutation...
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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...
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Look up mutation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A mutation is a change in the sequence of an organism's genetic material. Mutation or mutate may...
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Evolution (redirect from Mutation-selection)
are called alleles. DNA sequences can change through mutations, producing new alleles. If a mutation occurs within a gene, the new allele may affect the...
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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...
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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...
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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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U-mutation, or u-umlaut, can refer to various processes that occurred in the history of some Germanic languages: Old Norse u-umlaut, allophones of non-rounded...
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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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