mutation

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the way in which genes change and produce permanent differences:

It is well known that radiation can cause mutation.

a permanent change in an organism, or the changed organism itself:

Environmental pressures encourage genes with certain mutations to persist and others to die out.

These plants carry the mutation for red flowers.

the change that happens in an organism’s genes which produces differences that are passed to new organisms by reproduction, or the process of this change