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What does mutation mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mutation? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Any alteration or change.
  2. (genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
  3. A mutant.
  4. (linguistics) An alteration a particular sound of a word, especially the initial consonant, which is triggered by the word's morphological or syntactic context and not by its phonological context.
  5. (rare, collective noun) A group of thrushes.
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The 25-bp insertion causes a frameshift mutation and creates stop codons in all three reading frames.
This frameshift mutation could be merely drifting to high frequency due to weak functional constraint.
Arrows indicate the position of the point mutation and the corresponding nucleotide on the wild-type sequence.
We are studying properties of spontaneous mutation affecting quantitative traits of the annual crucifer, Arabidopsis thaliana.
We estimate that reversion of the lac mutation is about one-tenth as likely as a null frameshift mutation in a typical gene.
The plant and seed pigmentation components can be lost independently by mutation or unequal crossing over, leading to different derivatives.

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