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MUTAGENESIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does mutagenesis mean?

• MUTAGENESIS (noun)
The noun MUTAGENESIS has 1 sense:

1. an event capable of causing a mutation

Familiarity information: MUTAGENESIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MUTAGENESIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An event capable of causing a mutation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("mutagenesis" is a kind of...):

cause (events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something)

Holonyms ("mutagenesis" is a part of...):

chromosomal mutation; genetic mutation; mutation ((genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism)

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