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
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Yes, but site-directed mutagenesis is not the same as either evolution or ID – it's a special and limited case.
Creationism, defined 2006
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Yes, but site-directed mutagenesis is not the same as either evolution or ID – it's a special and limited case.
Creationism, defined 2006
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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.
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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
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Additional studies such as mutagenesis of Ser112 of BAD
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Siming Liu et al. 2009
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I also started my first mutagenesis and began looking for touch-insensitive mutants.
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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
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Evaluating the results of their experiments the Clemson researchers concluded: "Juice from strawberry, blueberry, and raspberry fruit significantly inhibited mutagenesis."
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An understanding of evolution as endogenous adaptive mutagenesis looks to "have many practical implications?"
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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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