How to Use mutation in a Sentence

mutation

noun

• The cat's short tail is the result of mutation.
• The building is a mutation of the original design.
• The condition is caused by a genetic mutation.
• To cause harm, the mutation must come from both parents.
  — Mark Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
• The mutation can change the way the virus functions, which means it could be passed back to humans.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2024
• So trying to look at the DNA mutations that are present there.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
• The nickname comes from the technical names used for the mutations of KP.1.1 and KP.2.
  — Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 15 May 2024
• Why would that be the case, given the broad set of new mutations that 2.86 carries?
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed — from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed - from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• If a baby has the trait, that means at least one parent has the mutation.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• That was a question that the mutation will help to answer as well.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 July 2022
• About 5% of white Americans have one copy of the gene with this mutation.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 24 May 2022
• All five received stem cells from donors with a rare mutation in a gene called CCR5.
  — WIRED, 27 July 2023
• MPNs are caused by mutations in the stem cells found in your marrow, a.k.a.
  — Brittany Risher, SELF, 30 July 2024
• So why do people like Johnson have this mutation in the first place?
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2022
• But there’s still a lot researchers don’t know about this mutation.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Dec. 2021
• That kind of mutation could kick off the formation of a new cancer.
  — Alia Sajani and Angus Chen, STAT, 12 July 2024
• That's because the original omicron strain that swept the world didn’t have the mutation.
  — Laura Ungar, ajc, 26 May 2022
• That’s because the original omicron strain that swept the world didn’t have the mutation.
  — Laura Ungar, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022
• Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the virus has acquired new mutations in its spike protein and elsewhere.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
• His stem cell donor had a mutation, which prevents the protein used by HIV to enter cells.
  — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Maybe the risk of a false alarm, based on an imperfect search for one kind of mutation, is better than no alarm at all.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2022
• The Lancet The children were all born with a mutation in a gene that makes a protein needed for hearing called otoferlin.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
• About 1 in 500 women has a mutation in their BRCA genes.
  — Abigail Norman, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• At birth, a genetic mutation robbed Desmond Blair of his hands.
  — Camille C. Knox, CBS News, 27 July 2022
• And then there’s the ever-present possibility that a new mutation will come along and change the game again.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
• Scientists suspect that these cows already had the slick mutation and passed it on to the Holsteins.
  — Katherine Rapin, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• In humans, redheads have up to five loss-of-function mutations in MC1R, leading to hair that ranges from strawberry blonde to copper.
  — Elizabeth Carlen, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
• So a good example is a subtype of lung cancer, which is driven by a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR.
  — quantamagazine.org, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024