mutation

Significado (Inglés)

1. Any alteration or change.
2. Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
3. A mutant.
4. An alteration in 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.
5. The transfer of title of an asset in a register.
6. A group of thrushes.

Conceptos

mutación

cambio

cambio en el material genético

mutagenesis

mudanza

variación

vicisitud

alteración

modificación

mutacion

mutante

fluctuación

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/mjuˈteɪʃən/

Etimología (Inglés)

Late 14th century as Middle English mutacioun, from Latin mūtātiō, both directly and via Old French mutacion.