Mutation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MUTATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of changing
• the action or process of mutating
• the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form which may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of larger sections of genes or chromosomes
• a distinct form resulting from genetic mutation
• regular change of a sound when it occurs adjacent to another.
• (in Celtic languages) change of an initial consonant in a word caused (historically) by the preceding word.
• (in Germanic languages) the process by which the quality of a vowel was altered in certain phonetic contexts; umlaut.
• Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.
• (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
• (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism
• a change or alteration in form or qualities
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of changing in form
• same as mutant

Words related to MUTATION

mutant8 mutational12 mutationally17 mutations11

Words that contain MUTATION

mutations11 mutational12 commutation17 dismutation14 mutationist13 permutation15 commutations18 dismutations15 mutationally17 mutationists14 permutations16 macromutation19 permutational17 transmutation15 macromutations20 transmutations16 transmutational17

How to use MUTATION in a sentence

• I lived long enough in the jail to witness a general mutation of its inhabitants.
• Is not a man better than a town? Ask nothing of men, and in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
• Analagous to the above mutation in the state of the land, is the following singular fact related by Sir Rd.
• It was rescued from oblivion by De Vries, who found it buried in a mass of literature and brought it to light when he published his renowned Mutation Theory in 1901.
• It is this constancy which is the mark of specific characters, and on this basis every new specific character may be assumed to have arisen by mutation.
• The production of the new character I call premutation, and the displaying mutation.
• In this connection we must bear in mind the fact that no difference, recognisable externally, need exist between individual variation and mutation.
• This holds good, so far as we know at present, for a small rose-coloured form which is to be reckoned as a mutation.
• Mendelism and mutation theories may have something to say on the subject when these theories have been more fully correlated with the basal principles of selection.
• Most sharply does this appear in the theory of mutation, which is only a stronger accentuation of a main point in Darwinism.
• The distinction between variation and mutation is here without importance.
• To the Supreme Being alone can belong the power of creation, annihilation, and absolute mutation.
• It might have been a laboratory mutation, but nobody could ever prove it.
• In the Middle High German period the mutation was carried through in all dialects.
• We find, in short, such evidence of the slow and scarcely sensible mutation of specific forms, as we have a just right to expect to find.
• It finds, rather, ideal points of reference by which material mutation itself seems to be controlled.
• Of course, as we have seen, there is a primary demand in man which death and mutation contradict flatly, so that no summons to cease can ever be obeyed with complete willingness.
• Possibly there is some quibble on the definition of mutation or of variation.
• Your illustration of mutation by throwing colours on a screen, and the argument founded on it, I liked much.

Similar words containing MUTA without suffix tion

mutant8 mutase8 mutate8 mutable11 mutably14 mutagen10 mutanda10 mutants9 mutases9 mutated10 mutates9 mutator9 mutagens11 mutandum13 mutating11 mutative13 mutators10 mutatory13 commutate15 immutable15 immutably18 mutagenic14 mutations11 nonmutant11 permutate13 commutable18 commutated17 commutates16 commutator16 mutability17 mutagenise13 mutagenize22 mutational12 nonmutants12 permutable16 permutably19 permutated15 permutates14 antimutagen14 commutating18 commutation17 commutative20 commutators17 dismutation14 mutableness15 mutageneses14 mutagenesis14 mutagenised15 mutagenises14 mutagenized24 mutagenizes23 mutationist13 permutating16 permutation15 antimutagens15 commutations18 dismutations15 hypermutable24 immutability21 incommutable20 incommutably23 mutabilities16 mutagenicity20 mutagenising16 mutagenizing25 mutationally17 mutationists14 permutations16 transmutable16 transmutably19 commutability24 commutatively25 commutativity25 immutableness19 macromutation19 mutablenesses17 mutagenically21 permutability22 permutational17 transmutation15 transmutative18 commutableness22 immutabilities20 intransmutable18 macromutations20 mutagenicities19 noncommutative23 permutableness20 transmutations16 untransmutable18 commutabilities23 commutativities24 hypermutability30 immutablenesses21 incommutability26 permutabilities21 transmutability22 transmutational17 hypermutabiliti27 noncommutativit24 noncommutativity28 hypermutabilities29 phosphoglucomutase33 noncommutativities27 phosphoglucomutases34

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