noun
a mutation occurring in a somatic cell, resulting in a change in the morphology or some other aspect of one part of an organism (usually a plant). It may be maintained by vegetative propagation but not by sexual reproduction
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How to use somatic mutation in a sentence This is the actual Calaveras Fault, forcing its way through town, bringing architectural mutation along with it.
Those with the disease have some cells that are genetically normal and some with the mutation.
For some illnesses, having a mutation in one specific gene usually—but not always—caused disease.
If scientists identify 100 individuals with the same mutation, and 75 of them have disease, the penetrance is 75 percent.
This was a mutation of a relationship that should, in theory, be unbreakably strong.
Nor is it difficult to discover some of the circumstances that tended to bring about this radical mutation of policy.
Do species change by the gradual elimination of the unfit, or do they change by sudden leaps, the "mutation" theory of de Vries?
There is no trace of such vocalic mutation (“umlaut”) in Gothic, our most archaic Germanic language.
Still more remarkable is the mutation and addition of new words of especially definite meaning among certain classes.
Such differentiations in tone our own people make also, and the mutation of meaning is very close.
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Medical definitions for somatic mutation
n.
Mutation occurring in the somatic cells as opposed to the germ cells.
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