Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 19 compound words that contain mutations. The most common are listed below. Open mutations in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- point mutationsplural of point mutation: A mutation that involves the replacement, addition or deletion of a small number of bases (especially just one) at a specific site within a gene.
- nonsense mutationsplural of nonsense mutation: A point mutation that generates either a premature stop codon, or a codon that does not specify any amino acid.
- silent mutationsplural of silent mutation: A mutation in DNA that does not have an observable effect on the organism's phenotype.
- frameshift mutationsplural of frameshift mutation: A 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 …
- missense mutationsplural of missense mutation: A point mutation that results in the substitution of one amino acid by another.
- hard mutationsplural of hard mutation: A type of pronunciation change required when speaking certain Celtic languages.
- mixed mutationsplural of mixed mutation: A type of pronunciation change required when speaking certain Celtic languages.
- soft mutationsplural of soft mutation: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances; lenition.
- nasal mutationsplural of nasal mutation: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
- vowel mutationsplural of vowel mutation: 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.
- aspirate mutationsplural of aspirate mutation: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
- spirant mutationsplural of spirant mutation: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
Compound words 19
- permutationsplural of permutation: One of the ways something exists, or the ways a set of objects can be ordered.
- commutationsplural of commutation: Substitution of one thing for another; interchange.
- animutationsplural of animutation: A form of Internet-based computer animation characterized by unpredictable montages of pop culture images set to music; (countable) an instance of this.
- backmutationsplural of backmutation: A mutation that restores the original sequence and hence the original phenotype.
- dismutationsplural of dismutation: A disproportionation reaction, especially in a biological context, in which oxidized and reduced forms of a chemical species are produced simultaneously
- epimutationsplural of epimutation: A heritable change in gene expression that does not affect the actual base pair sequence of DNA.
- hypermutationsplural of hypermutation: Frequent mutation
- hypomutationsplural of hypomutation: A reduced rate of mutation
- intermutationsplural of intermutation: interchange; mutual or reciprocal change
- macromutationsplural of macromutation: A large-scale mutation.