transcription, транскрипция: [ mju:teɪt, AM mju:teɪt ]
( mutates, mutating, mutated)
1.
If an animal or plant mutates , or something mutates it, it develops different characteristics as the result of a change in its genes.
The virus mutates in the carrier’s body...
A newer anti-HIV drug called pyridinone caused HIV to mutate into a form which could not reproduce or infect new cells...
The technique has been to mutate the genes by irradiation or chemicals...
VERB : V , V into n , V n , also V n into n
• mu‧ta‧tion
(mutations)
Scientists have found a genetic mutation that appears to be the cause of Huntington’s disease.
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2.
If something mutates into something different, it changes into that thing.
Overnight, the gossip begins to mutate into headlines.
VERB : V into n