Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Formation or development of a mutation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the causing of a mutation or the occurrence of a mutation{3}.

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  • noun genetics the creation or formation of a genetic mutation

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  • noun an event capable of causing a mutation

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[muta(tion) + –genesis.]

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Examples

  • Yes, but site-directed mutagenesis is not the same as either evolution or ID – it's a special and limited case.

    Creationism, defined 2006

  • Yes, but site-directed mutagenesis is not the same as either evolution or ID – it's a special and limited case.

    Creationism, defined 2006

  • The experiment I referenced demonstrated (actually a series of experiments) that DNA damage in M. tuberculosis results in the induction of an SOS-regulated polymerase (DNAE2), which causes base substitution mutagenesis, that is, the experiment was set up so that the only drug resistant mutations that was scored was base substitution mutagenesis.

    Browsing the Latest Issue of Scientific American 2006

  • To understand the role of the contact HLA-G residues in HLA-G recognition by NK cells we performed an extensive site-directed mutagenesis which is listed in HLA-G is markedly different from HLA-C and other selected MHC class I molecules in the contact residues between KIR and HLA-C.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Tsufit Gonen-Gross et al. 2010

  • Additional studies such as mutagenesis of Ser112 of BAD

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Siming Liu et al. 2009

  • I also started my first mutagenesis and began looking for touch-insensitive mutants.

    Martin Chalfie - Autobiography 2009

  • Smith's work forms the basis for site-directed mutagenesis, a technique by which it is possible to change a specific amino-acid in a protein and thereby illuminate its functional role.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

  • Evaluating the results of their experiments the Clemson researchers concluded: "Juice from strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry fruit significantly inhibited mutagenesis."

    Slimming Strawberries For Weight Loss 2011

  • An understanding of evolution as endogenous adaptive mutagenesis looks to "have many practical implications?"

    2008 June - Telic Thoughts 2008

  • Cantankerous and rigid with old age, Morgan refused to give Muller full recognition for his theory of mutagenesis, which he regarded as a largely derivative observation.

    The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

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