OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27814

mutation

/mjuˈteɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
mutación
Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the…
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