mutafacient

English

Etymology

From mutate +‎ -facient.

Adjective

mutafacient (not comparable)

1. capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents)
   • 1945, Plant Breeding Abstracts: Volume 15, page 4:

     After indicating the mode in which these factors interact in determining the development of the organism and in affecting their own activist, it is shown that they have also a mutafacient action, i.e. are able to affect each other's mutation rates.

   • 1958, Genes, Plants, and People: Essays on Genetics, page 66:

     Size of circle indicates frequency of seedlings, continuous and direct but mutafacient and indirect.

Synonyms

• mutagenic