MUTATION

n.

late 14c., mutacioun, “action or process of changing,”

from Latin mutationem “a changing, alteration” noun of action from past-participle stem of mutare “to change”

The genetics sense “process whereby heritable changes in DNA arise”

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY: MUTATION (2020)

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