In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA. Viral genomes contain...

Mutation testing (or mutation analysis or program mutation) is used to design new software tests and evaluate the quality of existing software tests. Mutation...

single type of mutation; there are many different types of mutations. Mutation rates are given for specific classes of mutations. Point mutations are a class...

A point mutation is a genetic mutation where a single nucleotide base is changed, inserted or deleted from a DNA or RNA sequence of an organism's genome...

BRCA mutation is a mutation in either of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are tumour suppressor genes. Hundreds of different types of mutations in these...

In genetics, a nonsense mutation is a point mutation in a sequence of DNA that results in a nonsense codon, or a premature stop codon in the transcribed...

are called alleles. DNA sequences can change through mutations, producing new alleles. If a mutation occurs within a gene, the new allele may affect the...

Mutationism is one of several alternatives to evolution by natural selection that have existed both before and after the publication of Charles Darwin's...

Look up mutation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A mutation is a change in the sequence of an organism's genetic material. Mutation or mutate may...

U-mutation, or u-umlaut, can refer to various processes that occurred in the history of some Germanic languages: Old Norse u-umlaut, allophones of non-rounded...