Mutate
verb
To change or cause to change in form or nature.
The virus mutates in response to drugs.
Often appears as...
- mutate into
- mutate beyond recognition
verb
To change genetically from one generation to the next.
When cells divide, they can sometimes mutate and become cancerous.
Often appears as...
- mutate randomly
- gene mutate
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Academic
verb
To change or cause to change in form or nature.
The virus mutates in response to drugs.
Often appears as...
- mutate into
- mutate beyond recognition
verb
To change genetically from one generation to the next.
When cells divide, they can sometimes mutate and become cancerous.
Often appears as...
- mutate randomly
- gene mutate
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Change or Evolution
Used to express a process of change or development, sometimes unpredictably.
Our plan had to mutate to accommodate new circumstances.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
While it can suggest a negative turn, 'mutate' can be neutral or positive depending on context.
This research will help our strategies mutate into something more effective.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instantaneous
Implies a gradual process, not an immediate switch from one state to another.
The artist's style mutated over the decades.
Pro Tip 1/3Change or Evolution
Used to express a process of change or development, sometimes unpredictably.
Our plan had to mutate to accommodate new circumstances.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
While it can suggest a negative turn, 'mutate' can be neutral or positive depending on context.
This research will help our strategies mutate into something more effective.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instantaneous
Implies a gradual process, not an immediate switch from one state to another.
The artist's style mutated over the decades.
Pro Tip 1/3Change or Evolution
Used to express a process of change or development, sometimes unpredictably.
Our plan had to mutate to accommodate new circumstances.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Negative
While it can suggest a negative turn, 'mutate' can be neutral or positive depending on context.
This research will help our strategies mutate into something more effective.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Instantaneous
Implies a gradual process, not an immediate switch from one state to another.
The artist's style mutated over the decades.
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How this disease changes...
And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function. In regions rife with this parasite, sickle cell mutation offered a serious evolutionary advantage.
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What causes antibiotic...
gives quite the edge. As the non-resistant bacteria are killed off, which happens especially quickly in antibiotic-rich environments, like hospitals, there is more room and resources for the resistant ones to thrive, passing along only the mutated genes that help them do so. Reproduction isn't the only way to do this.
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How did the Hammerhead...
amounts each generation until eventually after millions of years the hammerheads we know today appeared but the latest genetic evidence has turned this theory upside down some scientists now think the hammer didn't appear gradually that perhaps it was a freak mutation that happened almost overnight
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Why do we sleep? PIPE...
The neural networks that predispose you to normal sleep, give you normal sleep, and those that give you normal mental health, are overlapping. And what's the evidence for that? Well, genes that have been shown to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed,
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Where do genes come...
They may cause a gene to make its protein in a different organ, or at a different time of life, or the protein may start doing a different job altogether. In snakes, for example, there's a gene that makes a protein for killing bacteria. Long ago, the gene duplicated and the new copy mutated.
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What would happen if you...
studies show that chronically sleeping fewer than six hours a night increases stroke risk by four and half times compared to those getting a consistent seven to eight hours of shuteye. For a handful of people on the planet who carry a rare inherited genetic mutation,
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Mutant All-Black Penguin...
king penguin astonishing he jokingly said it's a one in a zillion kind of mutation and scientifically calls it very rare he explains that typically melanistic birds will have white spots where melanin pigmentation has failed to color the feathers but it's extremely
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What is a coronavirus? -...
the influenza virus mutates so quickly that new strains pop up constantly. The slower mutation rate of coronaviruses means our immune systems, drugs, and vaccines might be able to recognize them for longer after infection, and therefore protect us better.
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Emma Teeling: The secret...
this indicates that that site is important for a function, so a disease mutation should fall within that site. So in this case here, if all the mammals that we look at have a yellow-type genome at that site, it probably suggests that purple is bad.
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Why I think inside the...
at mutated mutates not only through mistakes in code but through epigenetic and cultural influences I've spent seven years I think so far on this project this one has two heads and
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How this disease changes...
And if a child inherits a copy of the mutation from only one parent, there will be just enough abnormal hemoglobin to make life difficult for the malaria parasite, while most of their red blood cells retain their normal shape and function. In regions rife with this parasite, sickle cell mutation offered a serious evolutionary advantage.
Video examples
What causes antibiotic...
gives quite the edge. As the non-resistant bacteria are killed off, which happens especially quickly in antibiotic-rich environments, like hospitals, there is more room and resources for the resistant ones to thrive, passing along only the mutated genes that help them do so. Reproduction isn't the only way to do this.
Video examples
How did the Hammerhead...
amounts each generation until eventually after millions of years the hammerheads we know today appeared but the latest genetic evidence has turned this theory upside down some scientists now think the hammer didn't appear gradually that perhaps it was a freak mutation that happened almost overnight
Video examples
Why do we sleep? PIPE...
The neural networks that predispose you to normal sleep, give you normal sleep, and those that give you normal mental health, are overlapping. And what's the evidence for that? Well, genes that have been shown to be very important in the generation of normal sleep, when mutated, when changed,
Video examples
Where do genes come...
They may cause a gene to make its protein in a different organ, or at a different time of life, or the protein may start doing a different job altogether. In snakes, for example, there's a gene that makes a protein for killing bacteria. Long ago, the gene duplicated and the new copy mutated.
Video examples
What would happen if you...
studies show that chronically sleeping fewer than six hours a night increases stroke risk by four and half times compared to those getting a consistent seven to eight hours of shuteye. For a handful of people on the planet who carry a rare inherited genetic mutation,
Video examples
Mutant All-Black Penguin...
king penguin astonishing he jokingly said it's a one in a zillion kind of mutation and scientifically calls it very rare he explains that typically melanistic birds will have white spots where melanin pigmentation has failed to color the feathers but it's extremely
Video examples
What is a coronavirus? -...
the influenza virus mutates so quickly that new strains pop up constantly. The slower mutation rate of coronaviruses means our immune systems, drugs, and vaccines might be able to recognize them for longer after infection, and therefore protect us better.
Video examples
Emma Teeling: The secret...
this indicates that that site is important for a function, so a disease mutation should fall within that site. So in this case here, if all the mammals that we look at have a yellow-type genome at that site, it probably suggests that purple is bad.
Video examples
Why I think inside the...
at mutated mutates not only through mistakes in code but through epigenetic and cultural influences I've spent seven years I think so far on this project this one has two heads and
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Richard Preston
American Writer
The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.
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Dean Ornish
American Educator
Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame.
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Guy Laliberte
Canadian Businessman
Adaption of the human body in space is not yet mastered. As soon as you hit space, you feel your body is going through a period of mutation. There's no blood in your head; you have a hard time swallowing. We're not born to naturally be in space.
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Mike Patton
American Musician
I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Statesman
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.
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Genesis P-Orridge
English Musician
Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.
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Douglas Coupland
Canadian Author
We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
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David Grinspoon
American Scientist
Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.
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Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
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Frances McDormand
American Actress
I have not mutated myself in any way.
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Richard Preston
American Writer
The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.
Quote examples
Dean Ornish
American Educator
Having the BRCA mutation significantly increases the risk of breast cancer, but it is not always the only factor. Lifestyle choices may increase or decrease the risk of breast cancer, but that knowledge is an opportunity to empower ourselves, not to blame.
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Guy Laliberte
Canadian Businessman
Adaption of the human body in space is not yet mastered. As soon as you hit space, you feel your body is going through a period of mutation. There's no blood in your head; you have a hard time swallowing. We're not born to naturally be in space.
Quote examples
Mike Patton
American Musician
I know that whatever I put out, whether people think it's pop or noise or whatever, it's always going to be some kind of a freak or mutation. It's not going to be anything pure that a lot of people will relate to. And that's fine.
Quote examples
Mikhail Gorbachev
Statesman
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared.
Quote examples
Genesis P-Orridge
English Musician
Every few years, you have to change your strategy. You have to look at how the world is mutating, and mutate. Not in the same way but in parallel.
Quote examples
Douglas Coupland
Canadian Author
We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
Quote examples
David Grinspoon
American Scientist
Radiation is one of the important factors in evolution. It causes mutation, and some level of mutation is actually good for evolution.
Quote examples
Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
Quote examples
Frances McDormand
American Actress
I have not mutated myself in any way.
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