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What does mutation mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mutation? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Any alteration or change.
  2. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
  3. A mutant.
  4. (linguistics) 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.
  5. (rare, collective noun) A group of thrushes.
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We also analyze the evidence for the presence of a disease mutation after inferring the ancestry of a locus.
The 25-bp insertion causes a frameshift mutation and creates stop codons in all three reading frames.
We estimate that reversion of the lac mutation is about one-tenth as likely as a null frameshift mutation in a typical gene.
Many country sounds are so terrifying they could easily have come from the throat of a rabid bat mutation or a savage, cross-bred boar-wolf.
However, such covariant mutation can also occur within closely related groups.
Whereas a translation error is like an inkblot marring one copy of a book, a mutation is a flaw in the printing plate, reproduced in every copy.

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