Definition of Mutants

1. Noun. (plural of mutant#Noun mutant) ¹

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Definition of Mutants

1. mutant [n] - See also: mutant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutants

mutagenetic
mutagenic
mutagenically
mutagenicities
mutagenicity
mutagenicity test
mutagenicity tests
mutagenize
mutagenized
mutagens
mutan synthetase
mutanda
mutandum
mutant
mutant gene
mutants (current term)
mutarotase
mutarotation
mutarotations
mutasarrif
mutasarrifs
mutase
mutases
mutasynthesis
mutate
mutated
mutated contraction
mutates
mutatin'
mutating

Literary usage of Mutants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"A variation in the direction of larger size would not be able to develop without adequate food. " Is there a tendency in mutants (or variants) to revert ..."

2. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"This finding illustrates the need to analyze mutants from individuals with high mutant ... The possibility that spontaneous hprt mutants might arise in vivo ..."

3. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"Selection of mutants. — Many valuable races of plants have been discovered accidentally and apparently have arisen suddenly. The Fultz Wheat comes from a ..."

4. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope, SourceOECD (Online service) (1998)
"The study of mouse mutants that, eg develop the same disease but have mutations in ... The necessity to study different alleles of mutants has been ..."

5. Sex-linked Inheritance in Drosophila by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Calvin Blackman Bridges (1916)
"FERTILITY AND STERILITY IN THE mutants. Aside from the decrease in fertility that occurs in certain stocks ..."

6. Domesticated Animals and Plants: A Brief Treatise Upon the Origin and by Eugene Davenport (1910)
"Mutation and mutants . Origin of new and improved strains The manner and machinery of transmission are exceedingly simple, but the mystery is, ..."

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