How to Use mutation in a Sentence

mutation

noun

• The cat's short tail is the result of mutation.
• The building is a mutation of the original design.
• The condition is caused by a genetic mutation.
• To cause harm, the mutation must come from both parents.
  — Mark Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
• Why would that be the case, given the broad set of new mutations that 2.86 carries?
  — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• All five received stem cells from donors with a rare mutation in a gene called CCR5.
  — WIRED, 27 July 2023
• Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the virus has acquired new mutations in its spike protein and elsewhere.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2023
• His stem cell donor had a mutation, which prevents the protein used by HIV to enter cells.
  — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
• The Lancet The children were all born with a mutation in a gene that makes a protein needed for hearing called otoferlin.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2024
• Scientists suspect that these cows already had the slick mutation and passed it on to the Holsteins.
  — Katherine Rapin, Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023
• Whale sharks and blackcod are not the only organisms with a mutation at site 94.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 24 Mar. 2023
• It is caused by a mutation in a gene that prevents the body from making dystrophin, a protein in muscle cells.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2023
• The team tracked the mutation to the gene abcg5, which produces a protein that may help waterproof the cell wall to ensure that the plant’s air shafts are watertight.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• At the outset of their search, Xia and colleagues suspected that the apes shed their tails through the mutation of specific genes.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• His donation also came from someone who had the mutation, and his HIV was cured in 2019.
  — CBS News, 21 Feb. 2023
• But many of the paths — routes by which, one mutation at a time, organisms could change their genotypes — reached fairly high points.
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• Jansens' is caused by mutation on a gene that regulates bone growth, and as a result bones in the arms, legs and spine become deformed.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2023
• The mutation can also occur in other carp species such as mirror carp and koi.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
• For much of history, that battle has been waged against microbes, mutations, and the ravages of old age.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 June 2023
• Cells with this mutation lost much of their ability to make glycogen.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
• To proponents of such work, there is no better way to home in on what mutations make a virus dangerous.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023
• The variant gained the attention of experts over the summer because of its high number of mutations.
  — Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
• Among the more interesting results: mutations in the MAPT gene that codes for tau proteins.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
• STRs have a high mutation rate, meaning this area varies widely from person to person.
  — Popular Science, 2 Aug. 2023
• With many of the other mutations that cause deafness, hair cells die during infancy or even at the fetal stage.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Those therapies apply only to the 40% to 50% of patients who have a mutation that can be targeted with a pill.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 15 Nov. 2022
• His is an extremely rare form, caused by a mutation in a single gene, otoferlin.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Each variant has some mutations that distinguish it from the others, but none has evolved past Omicron.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 2 Nov. 2023
• The new subvariant gained one crucial mutation, known as F486P.
  — Carl Zimmer, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• The specialized test targets a unique mutation found in the XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant, Roche said.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024