mustiness
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
musty
— Adjective
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~ covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"
musty
— Adjective
– English
~ stale and unclean smelling
mutability
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of being capable of mutation
mutable
— Adjective
– English
~ tending to undergo genetic mutuation; "It is likely, too, that the chromosomes of all eubacteria are as mutable as that of E. coli"
mutable
— Adjective
– English
~ prone to frequent change; inconstant; "the fickle and mutable nature of truth"; "the mutable ways of fortune"
mutable
— Adjective
– English
~ capable of or tending to change in form or quality or nature; "a mutable substance"; "mutable weather patterns"; "a mutable foreign policy"
mutableness
— Noun
– English
~ the quality of being capable of mutation
mutafacient
— Adjective
– English
~ capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents)
mutagen
— Noun
– English
~ any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation
mutagenesis
— Noun
– English
~ an event capable of causing a mutation
mutagenic
— Adjective
– English
~ capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of extracellular factors such as X-rays or chemical pollution)
Mutamycin
— Noun
– English
~ a complex of antibiotic substances obtained from a streptomyces bacterium; one form (trade name Mutamycin) shows promise as an anticancer drug
mutant
— Noun
– English
~ (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
mutant gene
— Noun
– English
~ a gene that has changed so that the normal transmission and expression of a trait is affected
mutant
— Noun
– English
~ an animal that has undergone mutation
mutant
— Adjective
– English
~ tending to undergo or resulting from mutation; "a mutant gene"
mutate
— Verb
– English
~ undergo mutation; "cells mutate"
mutation
— Noun
– English
~ (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
mutation
— Noun
– English
~ (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism