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mutative

/myoo-teyt/US // ˈmyu teɪt //UK // (mjuːˈteɪt) //

突变的,突变性,变异性,突变

Related Words

modify修改,更改,改动,改装alter改变,更改,改动,改造vary变化,不同,不同的,变化的change变化,改变,更改,变革anomaly反常现象,异常情况,异常现象,异常点mutant突变体,变种人,突变人,突变株mutation变异,突变,变种,变异的

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

    • : to change; alter.
    • : Biology. to cause to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: The disease mutates the retina’s rod cells, and they slowly stop working.
    • : Phonetics. to change by umlaut.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

    • : to undergo change: It was a gamble to mutate from hard rock frontman to big band crooner, but he went seriously retro and won that bet in a huge way.
    • : Biology. to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: Drug-resistant cells mutate more quickly and could migrate into surrounding tissue.

Examples

  • On a priori grounds there is no reason why several mutative changes might not take place in the same locus of a chromosome.

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