Examples of mutate in a Sentence
a disease that mutates genes in humans
a group of mutated genes
Over time, her feelings mutated from hatred into love.
opera singers mutating into pop stars
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Experts still worry, though, that the virus could someday mutate into a version that causes more severe disease or that spreads from person to person.
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Aria Bendix, NBC News, 18 July 2024
Results from individual farms would be anonymized and sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to offer snapshots about disease spread and how the virus is mutating, Jha said.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 10 July 2024
With a virus that mutates as quickly as SARS-CoV-2 does, keeping up with the alphabet-soup names of the newest variants is a daunting task.
—Alice Park, TIME, 9 July 2024
That capacity helps scientists understand how the virus is mutating and provides a baseline for developing tests and vaccines.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 1 July 2024
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Aria Bendix, NBC News, 18 July 2024
Results from individual farms would be anonymized and sent to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to offer snapshots about disease spread and how the virus is mutating, Jha said.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 10 July 2024
With a virus that mutates as quickly as SARS-CoV-2 does, keeping up with the alphabet-soup names of the newest variants is a daunting task.
—Alice Park, TIME, 9 July 2024
That capacity helps scientists understand how the virus is mutating and provides a baseline for developing tests and vaccines.
—Dylan Scott, Vox, 1 July 2024
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“Mutate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutate. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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