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mutagen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of mutagen
mutagen
Those include a highly effective and reversible insertional transposon mutagen.
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Alcohol is an example of a chemical carcinogen that is not a mutagen.
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Congo Red is an azo dye, it is toxic to many organisms and is a suspected carcinogen and mutagen.
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The type of DNA damage produced depends on the type of mutagen.
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The mice received the food mutagen often found in highest quantities in the crust of meat and fish.
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Fluoride is also a known mutagen, or something that virulently mutates the DNA and leading to cancer.
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A mutagen is very often used to accelerate this process.
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The compound 5-bromouracil is thus an artificial mutagen.
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It also is a mutagen and can cause lung cancer.
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- Any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
- (mutagenic) capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution)
- In biology, a mutagen (Latin, literally origin of change) is a physical or chemical agent that changes the genetic material, usually DNA, of an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level. ...
- Any agent or substance that can cause genetic mutation
- (Mutagenic) Causing genetic mutation, Causing alterations in genetic material
- (Mutagenic) A risk of creating birth defects posed by an agent external to the reproducing organism.
- (Mutagenic) A chemical substance that can cause changes in the DNA of cells.
- (Mutagenic) Causes irreparable mutations in the DNA which will be transferred on to the next generation.
- (Mutagenic) Changes the genetic code, which are the building blocks of cells.
