mutative
/myoo-teyt/US // ˈmyu teɪt //UK // (mjuːˈteɪt) //
突变的,突变性,变异性,突变
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v.有主动词 verb
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mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.
- : to change; alter.
- : Biology. to cause to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: The disease mutates the retina’s rod cells, and they slowly stop working.
- : Phonetics. to change by umlaut.
v.无主动词 verb
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mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.
- : to undergo change: It was a gamble to mutate from hard rock frontman to big band crooner, but he went seriously retro and won that bet in a huge way.
- : Biology. to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: Drug-resistant cells mutate more quickly and could migrate into surrounding tissue.
Examples
On a priori grounds there is no reason why several mutative changes might not take place in the same locus of a chromosome.
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