mutative / ˈmyu teɪt /

突变的突变性变异性突变

mutative2 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

  1. to change; alter.
  2. 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.
  3. Phonetics. to change by umlaut.
v. 无主动词 verb

mu·tat·ed, mu·tat·ing.

  1. 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.
  2. Biology. to undergo an alteration of one or more characteristics: Drug-resistant cells mutate more quickly and could migrate into surrounding tissue.

更多mutative例句

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