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drdeca on June 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spiegelman's Monster

I thought mutate just meant change?

dekhn on June 6, 2016 [–]

in biology, mutate has a very specific meaning, and it does not include the formation of imperfect crystals. That area has its own set of terminology.

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