Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to mutation in the biological sense. See
mutation , 8.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or the result of
mutation
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- adjective of or relating to or resulting from mutation
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Examples
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What the study (and many like it) shows is that this kind of mutational search is as good as "hill climbing" algorithms.
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Even today, the Greek language is characterized by inexhaustible capabilities for "mutational" or locally accepted idiomatic transformations.
American Chronicle 2008
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Information on previous diagnostic evaluations and particularly specific mutational analysis is important.
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A reasonable question would be: provide evidence that known sorts of mutational events produced the adaptive immune system.
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A large number of mutational mechanisms and selective mechanisms have been observed in the lab and in the wild.
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If a common ancestor first sustained the mutational mistakes and subsequently gave rise to those two modern species, that would very readily account for why both species have them now.
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Even small SNP clusters are non-randomly distributed: is this evidence of mutational non-independence? is a paper authored by William Amos.
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A reasonable question would be: provide evidence that known sorts of mutational events produced the adaptive immune system.
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Domestic breeding relies upon exactly the same pool of mutational variation as natural selection.
The Wonder That Is Dog, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If a common ancestor first sustained the mutational mistakes and subsequently gave rise to those two modern species, that would very readily account for why both species have them now.
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