Mutation vs Variability - 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:
the state or characteristic of being variable
the degree to which a thing is variable. In data or statistics this is often a measurement of distance from the mean or a description of data range.
As nouns the difference between mutation and variability
is that mutation is mutation while variability is the state or characteristic of being variable.mutation
English
(wikipedia mutation)Alternative forms
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- 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.