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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • The Mutations (also known as The Mutation, The Freaks, and The Freakmaker) is a low-budget 1974 British-American science fiction/horror film directed...
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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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  • modern Celtic languages, Breton is characterised by initial consonant mutations, which are changes to the initial sound of a word caused by certain syntactic...
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    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...
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  • In genetics, a missense mutation is a point mutation in which a single nucleotide change results in a codon that codes for a different amino acid. It is...
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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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  • somatic mutation is a change in the DNA sequence of a somatic cell of a multicellular organism with dedicated reproductive cells; that is, any mutation that...
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  • Mutational signatures are characteristic combinations of mutation types arising from specific mutagenesis processes such as DNA replication infidelity...
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    germline mutation, or germinal mutation, is any detectable variation within germ cells (cells that, when fully developed, become sperm and ova). Mutations in...
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  • Tyranny and Mutation (stylized on the cover as THE BLVE ÖYSTER CVLT: TYRANNY AND MVTATION), the second studio album by American rock band Blue Öyster Cult...
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  • Mutation Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research papers in the area of mutation research which focus on fundamental mechanisms...
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    Stop codon (redirect from Amber mutation)
    colors. Nonsense mutations that created this premature stop codon were later called opal mutations or umber mutations. Nonsense mutations are changes in...
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  • Virus mutation is mutation of viruses and may refer to: The feature of viruses to cause mutation in the human genome The feature of viruses to perform...
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    exhibits multiple phenotypic expression is called a pleiotropic gene. Mutation in a pleiotropic gene may have an effect on several traits simultaneously...
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  • A de novo mutation (DNM) is any mutation or alteration in the genome of an individual organism (human, animal, plant, microbe, etc.) that was not inherited...
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  • CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai. The four games, .hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine, all feature a "game within a game"...
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  • Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals, radiation, or enzymes in order to generate...
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    Silent mutations are mutations in DNA that do not have an observable effect on the organism's phenotype. They are a specific type of neutral mutation. The...
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  • A polymorphic engine (sometimes called mutation engine or mutating engine) is a software component that uses polymorphic code to alter the payload while...
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    caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome. It can be caused by a mutation in a single gene (monogenic) or multiple genes (polygenic) or by a chromosome...
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    The rex mutation is a genetic variation in mammals that results in soft curly fur. These effects are due to changes in the structure of groups of hairs...
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  • Genetic load (redirect from Mutational load)
    the accumulation of mutation load, culminating in extinction via mutational meltdown. The accumulation of deleterious mutations in humans has been of...
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