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Mutation

• Definition: A heritable alteration in a gene or chromosome; also, the process by which such an alteration happens. Used incorrectly, but with increasing frequency, as a synonym for mutant, even in some excellent textbooks.

  Source: Essential Genetics: A genomics perspective (2006) 4th Ed.