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单词 mutation
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mutationnoun

uk/mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/us/mjuːˈteɪ.ʃən/

[ U ] the way in which genes change and produce permanent differences:

It is well known that radiation can cause mutation.

[ C ] a permanent change in an organism, or the changed organism itself:

Environmental pressures encourage genes with certain mutations to persist and others to die out.
These plants carry the mutation for red flowers.

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mutationnoun [ C/U ]

us/mjuˈteɪ·ʃən/

biology the change that happens in an organism’s genes which produces differences that are passed to new organisms by reproduction, or the process of this change

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