Mutation vs Mutant - What's the difference?
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Any alteration or change.
(genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
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(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.
(rare) A (collective noun) for a collection of thrushes.
* 1984 , Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries, Virginia Wildlife , volume 45:
* 2010 , Doug Bennet, Tim Tiner, The Complete Up North: A Guide to Ontario's Wilderness from Black Flies to the Northern Lights , page 57:
* 2013 , Jason Sacher, A Compendium of Collective Nouns: From an Armory of Aardvarks to a Zeal of Zebras , page 196:
Something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.
* Your plaid fish are mutants .
(informal) Someone or something that seems strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
* I think your brother is a mutant ; he’s so weird!
That has undergone mutation.
* Your mutant fish are dying.
(informal) Strange, abnormal, or bizarre.
* Your mutant brother just growled at me again!
Mutant is a related term of mutation.
Mutant is a synonym of mutation.
As nouns the difference between mutation and mutant
is that mutation is any alteration or change while mutant is something which has mutated, which has one or more new characteristics from a mutation.As an adjective mutant is
that has undergone mutation.mutation
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(wikipedia mutation)Alternative forms
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(en noun)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- Birdwatchers would enjoy a host of sparrows, a herd of swans, a descent of woodpeckers, a herd of wrens, and mutation of thrushes.
- Names for a group: A flute or mutation of thrushes.
- A Mutation of Thrushes
The authors of the books of venery were not predicting Darwin with this term, but taking a cue from a common fable of the time.