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Mutation

noun

(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration. Synonyms: mutant, sport, variation.

(genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism. Synonyms: chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation.

A change or alteration in form or qualities.

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... believe that this is a true statement of what happened in the fruitful 'nineties. McClure's was not, speaking biologically, a new species at all; it was only a mutation in which the recessive traits of the old magazine became dominant while the invaluable type was preserved. To speak more plainly, the literary magazine, as America knew it, had always printed news, matured ...

— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby

... was here! Hedged about with provisions, curtailed and limited, here nevertheless was an acorn out of which, by natural growth and some mutation, was to come popular government wide and deep. The planting of this small seed of freedom here, in 1619, upon the banks of the James in Virginia, is an ...

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