MACROMUTATION


Meaning of MACROMUTATION in English

/mak'roh myooh tay"sheuhn/ , n. Genetics.

a mutation that has a profound effect on the resulting organism, as a change in a regulatory gene that controls the expression of many structural genes.

[ MACRO- + MUTATION ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .