mutant strain

collocation in English

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mutant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmjuː.tənt/us
/ˈmjuː.t̬ənt/
an organism that is different from others of its type because of a permanent change in ...
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strain
noun
uk
/streɪn/us
/streɪn/
a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes ...
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(Definition ofmutantandstrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In order to test for ' dominance ', crosses were made between haploids derived from a single heterozygousmutantstrain.
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There are also many mutations that show up in medaka at random, for example, amutantstrainthat lacks scales, and one with extra-long fins.
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All in all, homologous recombination provides more specificity when creating amutantstrain.
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This is similar to but not the same as a comparison between homozygous and heterozygous diploid mutant strains.
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This same layer in all three mutant strains rapidly thins due to the resident photoreceptors dying.
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Both in haploids and in homozygous mutant strains the masking effect of a wild-type allele is absent.
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Mutant strains used are described below.
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This fish has been widely used as an experimental animal because of its rather compact genome, availability of mutant strains, ease of maintenance and degree of genetic variation.
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Thus, even if the immune system begins to succeed against one variation, the mutant strains can take over and become new predominant strains.
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Mutant strains lacking pili show severely attenuated pathogenicity.
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However, the mutant strains could be made functional again by using proflavin to insert or delete a total of three nucleotides.
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In addition, these mutant strains exhibited very high rates of mis-segregation compared to normal behavior.
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Mutant strains lacking factors important for septin organization support this view.
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For the research, she isolated a rabies type of virus which produced mutant strains interfering with viral growth.
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