Examples of 'mutation rate' in a sentence

Meaning of "mutation rate"

Mutation rate - This phrase refers to the frequency or speed at which genetic mutations occur in a population. It is commonly used in genetics and evolutionary biology to describe the pace of genetic changes in organisms over time

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The mutation rate has not slowed.
Another cause can be elevated mutation rate.
The mutation rate can be made to go as it was meant to.
All viruses have a baseline mutation rate.
The mutation rate is increased by mutagenic agents.
So there is no life possible at that type of mutation rate.
The mutation rate must be very low.
Marker with low mutation rate.
This mutation rate is now known.
An agent that is capable of increasing the mutation rate.
Is the mutation rate per genome per generation.
A quantitative measurement for the human somatic mutation rate.
The mutation rate has been observed to vary with time.
Mismatches and thus modifying the substitution mutation rate.
The mutation rate of the human species is poorly known.

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Implied functional mutation rate.
But this mutation rate may work to our advantage.
How poxviruses evolve rapidly despite low mutation rate.
Mutation spectrum and mutation rate of different mutagenic agents.
There are three theories on what determines the evolution of mutation rate.
The mutation rate was considerable.
We have a high mutation rate.
The underlying mutation rate used by the geneticists is more questionable.
This effect would be exacerbated when mutation rate is increased.
The mutation rate.
These secondary mutations indicate an enormous mutation rate in this clone.
The mutation rate is the frequency at which new mutations occur in a gene.
The reports also indicate a very sudden rise in the mutation rate.
Preferably the mutation rate is inversely proportional to the affinity of the detector.
An important aspect of this effort is to account for the heterogeneity of mutation rate.
Other consequences that can occur due to mutation rate are different hereditary diseases.
This strategy in two cumulative replication steps permitted to increase the mutation rate.
The benchmarks for determining the mutation rate are often fossil or archaeological dates.
Mutation rate would have imagined that the monster so much faster than expected.
This led him to ask why the mutation rate does not fall to zero.
Theoretically mutations under no selection become fixed between organisms at precisely the mutation rate.
This assay measures the mutation rate of bacteria that are exposed to a test compound.
Antigenic mutants can evolve quickly due to the high mutation rate in viruses.
The high mutation rate which characterizes reverse transcription greatly favors the latter alternative.
The mutation may also occur spontaneously due to the naturally occurring mutation rate.
This mutation rate is similar to that described for other RNA viruses.
They also accounted for differences in the overall mutation rate across the genome.
She added that the fast mutation rate of HIV made drug resistance a big problem.
The second area where environment could come into play is the mutation rate itself.
The CSFV exhibits a high mutation rate due to their RNA nature.
Mutagen Any agent that is capable of increasing the mutation rate.
Here, the mutation rate is about one per billion nucleotides per replication.
Sequencing of the mutated CDRs showed that the observed mutation rate matched the expected rate.
A very small mutation rate may lead to genetic drift which is non-ergodic in nature.
The method takes advantage of the inherently high mutation rate of RNA replication.

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