mutation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-004252",
  "term": "mutation",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Any detectable and heritable change in the genetic material that causes a change in the genotype and which is transmitted to daughter cells and to succeeding generations.",
  "synonyms": [
    "mutations"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "molecular genetics",
    "mutagens",
    "mutants",
    "evolutionary adaptation",
    "biogenesis",
    "mismatch amplification mutation assay",
    "mutational analysis",
    "genetic equilibrium",
    "reverse genetics",
    "mutation rate",
    "DNA damage",
    "mutagenicity",
    "mutagenesis",
    "induced mutation",
    "somatic mutation",
    "base pair mismatch",
    "genetic polymorphism",
    "amino acid deletion",
    "sequence deletion",
    "gain-of-function mutation",
    "loss-of-function mutation",
    "spontaneous mutation",
    "mutation accumulation",
    "allelic imbalance",
    "genetic instability",
    "frameshift mutation",
    "point mutation",
    "nonsense mutation",
    "amino acid substitution",
    "missense mutation"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2012",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "mutación"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/mutation/"
}