Physical or chemical agent that increases the rate of genetic mutation
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In genetics, a mutagen is a physical or chemical agent that permanently changes genetic material, usually DNA, in an organism and thus increases the frequency of mutations above the natural background level. As many mutations can cause cancer in animals, such mutagens can therefore be carcinogens, although not all necessarily are. All mutagens have characteristic mutational signatures with some chemicals becoming mutagenic through cellular processes.
The process of DNA becoming modified is called mutagenesis. Not all mutations are caused by mutagens: so-called "spontaneous mutations" occur due to spontaneous hydrolysis, errors in DNA replication, repair and recombination.
In genetics, a mutagen is a physical or chemical agent that permanently changes genetic material, usually DNA, in an organism and thus increases the frequency...
to mutagen, he dissolved into a 6-foot (1.8 m). mutant blob of mutagen with floating organs and a disintegrating touch. He kept in a special mutagen container...
compound with the mutagen. Old Hob later gained the services of Sally Pride, Man Ray, and Mutagen Man. When Old Hob detonates a Mutagen bomb following Baxter...
Mutagen X (MX), or 3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-5H-furan-2-one, is a byproduct of the disinfection of water by chlorination. MX is produced by...
N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (chemical formula C3H7N3O2), is a highly potent mutagen. For a given gene in mice, ENU can induce 1 new mutation in every 700 loci...
films, such as infecting the archaeologist Charlie Holloway with an alien mutagen, would be from a desire to create a new evolutionary generation of his...
a promutagenic compound into actual active mutagen, inactivation, or otherwise the prevention of Mutagen-DNA reaction. Antimutagens can be classified...
him with Ooze, which could be used as a natural mutagen on Earth's organisms. Krang seeks this mutagen to use in healing the surviving utroms he took with...
Karai, inadvertently finding some mutagen in the process. During their battle with the Turtles however, the mutagen they found wound up being thrown by...
difference in the revertants of the mutagen plate and the control group plate. Negative Ames test means the possible mutagen DID not cause increase in revertants...
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were not corrected by proofreading or can be induced by an environmental mutagen such as a chemical (e.g., nitrous acid, benzopyrene) or radiation (e.g...
recruited by secret agent Lucy Wilde to investigate the theft of a powerful mutagen by El Macho, a supervillain who seeks to achieve world domination. Development...
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or as a result of exposure to mutagens. It can also be achieved experimentally using laboratory procedures. A mutagen is a mutation-causing agent, be...
explain that they landed here after fighting their Shredder and Krang over mutagen in the Technodrome. During the battle, the dimensional teleporter malfunctioned...
imaging and radon gas. Ionizing radiation is not a particularly strong mutagen. Residential exposure to radon gas, for example, has similar cancer risks...
suspected mutagen is added to one plate. If the plate with the suspected mutagen grows more visible colonies, it is probably mutagenic: a mutagen might cause...
flavonoid structures can tautomerize in biological systems to become active mutagens. Myricetin can act as a pro-oxidant compound when it interacts with DNA...
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