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Mutant Animal Change Lobster Plant Mutation 英 Mjuːtənt] 美

英语单词 mutant
英美音标 英 ['mjuːtənt] 美 ['mjuːtənt]
中文释义 n.突变异种
英语例句 (1) Yellow-green seedling mutant is a recessive mutant of pepper.
中文例句 (1) 辣椒黄绿苗突变体是辣椒叶色黄绿色隐性突变体。
vocabulary简明 When an animal's genes change, or mutate, the new form of the animal that results is a mutant. One example of such a mutant is a blue lobster. Another is the teenage mutant ninja turtle.
vocabulary扩展 You can use the scientific term mutant for any plant or animal that's the result of a change, or mutation, in the DNA of that organism. When the word is used as an adjective, it describes something having to do with this kind of mutation, like a mutant chromosome or a mutant lobster. Mutant stems from the Latin mutantem, which means "changing."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]变种;突变体 A mutant is an animal or plant that is physically different from others of the same species because of a change in its genes.

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