Mutant
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mutant-190-4934633
title:
Mutant
text:
In biology, and especially in genetics, a mutant is an organism or a new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is generally an alteration of the DNA sequence of the genome or chromosome of an organism. It is a characteristic that would not be observed naturally in a specimen. The term mutant is also applied to a virus with an alteration in its nucleotide sequence whose genome is in the nuclear genome. The natural occurrence of genetic mutations is integral to
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encyclopedia
description:
Phenotypically-different organism resulting from a mutation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant
date created:
2002-01-12T20:17:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T18:06:17Z
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