How to Use mutation in a Sentence

mutation

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  • 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
  • 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
  • That kind of mutation could kick off the formation of a new cancer.
    — Alia Sajani and Angus Chen, STAT, 12 July 2024
  • 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
  • His donation also came from someone who had the mutation, and his HIV was cured in 2019.
    — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But many of the paths — routes by which, one mutation at a time, organisms could change their genotypes — reached fairly high points.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Jansens' is caused by mutation on a gene that regulates bone growth, and as a result bones in the arms, legs and spine become deformed.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The mutation can also occur in other carp species such as mirror carp and koi.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
  • For much of history, that battle has been waged against microbes, mutations, and the ravages of old age.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
  • Cells with this mutation lost much of their ability to make glycogen.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Those mutations are random, but more cows provide more chances of stumbling on ones that pose a grave risk to humans.
    — Amy Maxmen | Kff Health News, ABC News, 24 May 2024

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