Mutation

Noun

 * 1) any alteration or change
 * 2)  Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material
 * 3) a mutant

Related terms

 * macromutation
 * micromutation
 * mutate

Thesaurus
ablaut, acoustic phonetics, alteration, altering, anomaly, articulatory phonetics, avatar, betacism, catabolism, catalysis, change, changing, consubstantiation, departure, deviant, deviation, displacement, evolution, evolving, gradation, heterotopia, innovation, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosing, metamorphosis, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, modification, modifying, morphophonemics, mutant, mutated form, novelty, orthoepy, permutation, phonetics, phonology, reincarnation, rhotacism, sound shift, sport, transanimation, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transforming, transformism, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmogrification, transmutation, transmuting, transposition, transubstantiation, turn, umlaut, variant, variation, varying, vicissitude

Translations

 * Catalan: mutació
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: mutaatio
 * French: mutation
 * German:
 * Hungarian: mutáció


 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Russian: мутация
 * Scottish Gaelic: mùthadh
 * Spanish: mutación