Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 34 compound words that contain mutation. The most common are listed below. Open mutation in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- soft mutationAn alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances; lenition.
- nasal mutationAn alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
- point mutationA mutation that involves the replacement, addition or deletion of a small number of bases (especially just one) at a specific site within a gene.
- aspirate mutationAn alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
- nonsense mutationA point mutation that generates either a premature stop codon, or a codon that does not specify any amino acid.
- hard mutationA type of pronunciation change required when speaking certain Celtic languages.
- back mutationAlternative form of backmutation: A mutation that restores the original sequence and hence the original phenotype.
- mutation pressureSynonym of mutationism: A theory emphasizing mutation as a creative principle and source of discontinuity in evolutionary change, particularly associated with the founders of modern genetics.
- mutation testingThe design of software tests by making slightly modified versions (mutants) of the program being tested. The value of a test suite is measured by how many of the mutants fail its tests.
- silent mutationA mutation in DNA that does not have an observable effect on the organism's phenotype.
- mixed mutationA type of pronunciation change required when speaking certain Celtic languages.
- vowel mutationSynonym of ablaut: The substitution of one root vowel for another, thus indicating a corresponding modification of use or meaning; vowel permutation, distinct from the phonetic influence of a succeeding vowel.
- frameshift mutationA genetic mutation that either inserts or deletes a number of nucleotides that is not divisible by three (i.e., a non-integer number of codons), altering the reading frame of the portion of the gene downstream of the mutation and causing …
- missense mutationA point mutation that results in the substitution of one amino acid by another.
- spirant mutationSynonym of aspirate mutation: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
Compound words 34
- animutationA form of Internet-based computer animation characterized by unpredictable montages of pop culture images set to music; (countable) an instance of this.
- intermutationinterchange; mutual or reciprocal change
- epimutationA heritable change in gene expression that does not affect the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
- hypomutationA reduced rate of mutation
- mutationismA theory emphasizing mutation as a creative principle and source of discontinuity in evolutionary change, particularly associated with the founders of modern genetics.
- mutonA unit of mutation forming part of a recon.
- premutationOf or relating to a premutation.
- antimutationPreventing or opposing mutation.
- backmutationA mutation that restores the original sequence and hence the original phenotype.
- macromutationA large-scale mutation.