mutation
名词突变; 变异; 变化; 转变
1. 变种:检查每一种病毒特有的规则,这种技术在于建立一个已知的多形(polymorphic)及变种(mutation)engines之所有特徵的档案(profile),然么尽可能排除不被列入考虑为病毒的档案.
2. 变化:就像整个社会科学一样,社会学在最近几年里经历了巨大的变化(mutation)--库恩(Kuhn)在其科学哲学著作中使用了该术语后,人们并没有滥用它,且其对我们论述社会学思想发生变革仍具有合理性.
noun
1. a change or alteration in form or qualities
2. (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure
any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism
Synonym: genetic mutationchromosomal mutation
3. (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration