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Definition: Mutagenesis |
MutagenesisNoun1. An event capable of causing a mutation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Process of generating genetic mutations. It may occur spontaneously or be induced by mutagens. (references) |
Medicine | Induction of a mutation using certain chemicals called mutagens. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Change | Transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation; deoxidization; transubstantiation; mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis; avatar; alterative. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mutagenesis |
| Specialty definitions using "mutagenesis": Mutagenesis, Insertional, Mutagenesis, Site-Directed ♦ Protein Engineering. (references) |
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| "Mutagenesis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mutagenesis" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mutagenesis": chemical mutagenesis ♦ directed mutagenesis ♦ in vitro mutagenesis ♦ Rice Transposon Mutagenesis. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "mutagenesis": point-mutagenesis. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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mutagenesis | 29 |
site directed mutagenesis | 23 |
mutagenesis pcr | 3 |
mutagenesis random | 3 |
environmental molecular mutagenesis | 3 |
ems mutagenesis | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "mutagenesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mutagenese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mutagenese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mutageneesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mutagénèse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Mutagenese. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μεταλλαξιγένεση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | mutagenesi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | utagenesismay mutagénese. (various references) mutagénesis (mutagenicity). (various references) mutagenes. (various references) จุ"เริ่มต้นของการเปลี่ยนแปลง. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-n-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: magnesites, magnetises. | |
-2 letters: amnesties, eugenists, geminates, magnesite, magnetise, meatiness, misagents, umangites, uneasiest. | |
-3 letters: agenesis, animuses, assignee, assuming, augments, eastings, etamines, etesians, eugenias, eugenist, gameness, gaminess, geminate, geniuses, giantess, mangiest, mantises, matinees, matiness, meatuses, meetings, messuage, mintages, misagent, miseaten, mistunes, misusage, mustangs, mutagens, muteness, sauteing, seamiest, seatings, seemings, segments, sinuates, steaming, tameness, tegumina, tenesmus. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-i-m-n-s-s-t-u" | |
+4 letters: discouragements, unmitigatedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 75 74 61 67 65 6E 65 73 69 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- ..- - .- --. . -. . ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01110101 01110100 01100001 01100111 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M u t a g e n e s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0075 0074 0061 0067 0065 006E 0065 0073 0069 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4787866773718071857585 |
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