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mutant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | mutation, sport, variation |
| Type of | organism, being |
| Has types | lusus naturae, monstrosity, freak, monster |
| Derivation | mutate |
mutant:: | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | mutate |
a mutant gene.
Examples of mutant
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Scientists knew that people with the mutant Huntington gene develop the disease.
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Gain of function of mutant p53 by coaggregation with multiple tumor suppressors.
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The mutant flies were trained to associate a sugar reward with a magnetic field.
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Instead of avoiding it, as normal flies do, the mutant flies flocked to alcohol.
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So the double mutant develops severe heart disease, like patients with Duchenne.
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The most important tool was a pollen mutant the team had discovered called hap2.
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Removing the VNO reduces this behavior, but in the mutant mice it was unaltered.
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However, the mutant is completely dead with regard to activation by resveratrol.
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The mutations are in two places because the mutant has two amino acid mutations.
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- Tending to undergo or resulting from mutation; "a mutant gene"
- (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- An animal that has undergone mutation
- (mutation) (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism
- (mutation) a change or alteration in form or qualities
- A mutant is an individual, organism, or new genetic character, arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is a base-pair sequence change within the DNA of a gene or chromosome of an organism resulting in the creation of a new character or trait not found in the wild type. ...
- Mutant is a 1953 collection of science fiction short stories by Lewis Padgett (pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore). It was first published by Gnome Press in 1953 in an edition of 4,000 copies. The stories all originally appeared in the magazine Astounding.
- Mutant or Mutants, in comics, may refer to: *Mutant (Marvel Comics), one of the main causes for super-powered characters in Marvel Comics, as well as a number of titles, groups or characters: **Brotherhood of Mutants, a group also called the Brotherhood of Evil Mutantsn**Fall of the Mutants, a ...
- The concept of a mutant is a common trope in comic books and science fiction. The new phenotypes that appear in fictional mutations generally go far beyond what is typically seen in biological mutants, and often result in the mutated life form exhibiting superhuman abilities or qualities.
