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  1. mutatedadjective

    Possessing a mutation.

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  1. mutated

    In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Viral genomes contain either DNA or RNA. Mutations result from errors during DNA or viral replication, mitosis, or meiosis or other types of damage to DNA (such as pyrimidine dimers caused by exposure to ultraviolet radiation), which then may undergo error-prone repair (especially microhomology-mediated end joining), cause an error during other forms of repair, or cause an error during replication (translesion synthesis). Mutations may also result from insertion or deletion of segments of DNA due to mobile genetic elements.Mutations may or may not produce detectable changes in the observable characteristics (phenotype) of an organism. Mutations play a part in both normal and abnormal biological processes including: evolution, cancer, and the development of the immune system, including junctional diversity. Mutation is the ultimate source of all genetic variation, providing the raw material on which evolutionary forces such as natural selection can act. Mutation can result in many different types of change in sequences. Mutations in genes can have no effect, alter the product of a gene, or prevent the gene from functioning properly or completely. Mutations can also occur in non-genic regions. A 2007 study on genetic variations between different species of Drosophila suggested that, if a mutation changes a protein produced by a gene, the result is likely to be harmful, with an estimated 70% of amino acid polymorphisms that have damaging effects, and the remainder being either neutral or marginally beneficial. Due to the damaging effects that mutations can have on genes, organisms have mechanisms such as DNA repair to prevent or correct mutations by reverting the mutated sequence back to its original state.

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    The numerical value of mutated in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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    The numerical value of mutated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of mutated in a Sentence

  1. Andy Pekosz:

    This virus has shown that it mutated slowly, but when it started to pick up good mutations, they just kept coming and coming and coming.

  2. Xu Wenbo:

    No need to panic, the mutated variant, compared with previous mutated variants .... has no obvious change so far in its ability to cause disease.

  3. Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel):

    Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry land—and finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley.

  4. Joshua Schiffman:

    It's as if the elephants said, 'It's so important that we don't get cancer, we're going to kill this cell and start over fresh,' if you kill the damaged cell, it's gone, and it can't turn into cancer. This may be more effective of an approach to cancer prevention than trying to stop a mutated cell from dividing and not being able to completely repair itself.

  5. Ashley Peterson:

    We do not know what has happened to the virus in the past few months, it could have mutated into something more deadly. Until we have a case, it is almost completely impossible to tell.

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