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
  • 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, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022
  • That's because the original omicron strain that swept the world didn’t have the mutation.
    Laura Ungar, ajc, 26 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
  • 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
  • But that doesn’t guarantee that there’s a drug that targets cells with that mutation.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • And most people have a boring genome, free of red-flag mutations, which means DNA data just aren’t that useful to them—at least not in this form.
    Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 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

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