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muton

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mu-ton
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A unit of mutation forming part of a recon.

Etymology

Contracted form of mutation + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as "[t]he unit of mutation […] defined as the smallest element that, when altered, can give rise to a mutant form of the organism."

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

mutons (plural)

Questions

What does muton mean?
A unit of mutation forming part of a recon.
Where does muton come from?
Contracted form of mutation + -on, coined by American molecular biologist Seymour Benzer in 1957 as "[t]he unit of mutation […] defined as the smallest element that, when altered, can give rise to a mutant form of the organism."

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