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, Anchorage Daily News, 30 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, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• At birth, a genetic mutation robbed Desmond Blair of his hands.
  — Camille C. Knox, CBS News, 27 July 2022
• Scientists suspect that these cows already had the slick mutation and passed it on to the Holsteins.
  — Katherine Rapin, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• Whale sharks and blackcod are not the only organisms with a mutation at site 94.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 24 Mar. 2023
• It is caused by a mutation in a gene that prevents the body from making dystrophin, a protein in muscle cells.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• The team tracked the mutation to the gene abcg5, which produces a protein that may help waterproof the cell wall to ensure that the plant’s air shafts are watertight.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• At the outset of their search, Xia and colleagues suspected that the apes shed their tails through the mutation of specific genes.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• These mutations can increase the chances of developing breast and ovarian cancer and play a big role in shaping treatment options.
  — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 3 Oct. 2024
• Merkel said Friday that 90% of bacterial strains cultured in human infections in the United States are now those associated with mutations to skirt the protections of the vaccine.
  — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024