Mutation



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 突变, 变化
• ［英］ n. 突变, 变化 ( a sudden departure from the parent type)
• ［类］ mimicry : camouflage / mutation : variation ( 拟态是一种伪装 / 突变是一种变化)
• ［记］ mut ( 变) +ation -> 变化
• ［同］ 同根词:immutable ( 不可变的)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 14th century
• 1. a significant and basic alteration ; change
• 2. umlaut
• 3.
  • a. a relatively permanent change in hereditary material involving either a physical change in chromosome relations or a biochemical change in the codons that make up genes; also the process of producing a mutation
  • b. an individual strain or trait resulting from mutation
• ? mutational adjective
• ? mutationally adverb

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