mutation 英 [mjuː'teɪʃ(ə)n] 　 美 [mju'teʃən]

mutation

mutation　 英 [mjuː'teɪʃ(ə)n] 美 [mju'teʃən]

n. [遗] 突变；变化；元音变化　

名词复数:mutations　

But researchers suspect a mutation in one gene allows some people to skip the process of forming fingerprints during development.　但是研究者猜想有一个基因突变使得有些人在生长过程中跳过指纹的形成过程。
Now they can and that helps keep the mutation in circulation.　不过现在可以了，这也助于让该突变维持流传。

  • A mutation is a genetic change that causes new and different characteristics, like the mutation on the dog's DNA that makes its tail shorter than its ancestors' tails.
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  • n. [遗] 突变；变化；元音变化

  • 1. But researchers suspect a mutation in one gene allows some people to skip the process of forming fingerprints during development.

    但是研究者猜想有一个基因突变使得有些人在生长过程中跳过指纹的形成过程。

  • 2. Now they can and that helps keep the mutation in circulation.

    不过现在可以了，这也助于让该突变维持流传。

  • mutation (n.) late 14c., "action of changing," from Old French mutacion (13c.), and directly from Latin mutationem (nominative mutatio) "a changing, alteration, a turn for the worse," noun of action from past participle stem of mutare "to change" (from PIE root *mei- (1) "to change, go, move"). Genetic sense is from 1894. The linguist's i-mutation is attested from 1874; earlier was i-umlaut (1869), from German.
mu·ta·tion / mjuːˈteɪʃn ; NAmE mjuːˈteɪʃn / noun 1 [uncountable ,  countable ] ( biology 生 ) a process in which the geneticmaterial of a person, a plant or an animal changes in structure when it is passed on to children, etc, causing different physical characteristics to develop; a change of this kind （生物物种的）变异，突变 ◆ cells affected by mutation 受到突变影响的细胞 ◆ genetic mutations 基因变异 2 [uncountable ,  countable ] a change in the form or structure of sth （形式或结构的）转变，改变 ◆ ( linguistics 语言 ) vowel mutation 元音变化 mutation mutations mu·ta·tion / mjuːˈteɪʃn ; NAmE mjuːˈteɪʃn /
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