mutagenic
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Adjective
[edit]mutagenic (comparative more mutagenic, superlative most mutagenic)
- Capable of causing mutation.
- Synonym: mutafacient
- 2010, Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, page 25:
- Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?
- Relating to mutagenesis.
- 2015 September 4, “Genotoxic, Cytotoxic, Antigenotoxic, and Anticytotoxic Effects of Sulfonamide Chalcone Using the Ames Test and the Mouse Bone Marrow Micronucleus Test”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- For the antimutagenicity evaluation, the same doses of CPN employed in the mutagenic evaluation were co-treated with their respective positive controls.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]capable of causing mutation
|