mutagen in English

noun
1
an agent, such as radiation or a chemical substance, that causes genetic mutation.
Among the mutagens that have been used to induce mutations, chemical mutagens administered in various ways have become especially popular.

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1. Benzophenone is a mutagen, carcinogen, and endocrine disruptor

2. April, the mutagen possesses powers beyond our wildest hopes.

3. Aflatoxin is a powerful carcinogen (a cancer-causing agent) and mutagen (a substance that mutates cells)

4. Doyle reveals the "antidote" they took earlier was the very mutagen they were trying to protect themselves from and reveals that he plans to sell the mutagen formula on the black market before fleeing.

5. The result of mice experiment indicated that VC may be a mutagen, and may be toxic in reproduction and memory.

6. The percentage of abnormal Anaphases of Ehrlich ascites tumour cells not treated with mutagen was 3.19 +/- 3.1

7. Ten Aphototropic mutant lines were isolated by screening 20,000 M2 seeds that had been treated with mutagen, and the CRY2 gene in each line was sequenced.

8. A study was performed to discover the Active part in mutagenesis of [6]-gingerol, a mutagen contained in ginger Zingiber officinale (Nakamura and Yamamoto, 1982)

9. ?) 9-AminoAcridine is a highly fluorescent dye used clinically as a topical antiseptic and experimentally as a mutagen, an intracellular pH indicator and a small molecule MALDI matrix.

10. Methods: To mutate breeding for strain by chemical mutagen. Its producing resistant ability and propagating stability of strain obtained by screening was observed by shaking flask test.

11. Many X-ray or chemical mutagen-induced chromosome translocations in domestic fowl (Gallus domesticus) are thought to involve microchromosomes as centromere donors to acentric macrochromosomal fragments.

12. 23 Methods: To mutate breeding for strain by chemical mutagen. Its producing resistant ability and propagating stability of strain obtained by screening was observed by shaking flask test.

13. With regard to factors determining the benignity of the disease an analysis of a presumable mutagen of variable intensity as well as of a hypothetical allelomorphic gene is presented.

14. Moreover, the process does not form any undesired by-products, particularly MX(Mutagen X), THM(Tri Halo Methanes), HAA(Halo Acetic Acids), Alkali metal sulfates, Chlorites, Chlorates, free Chlorine, Chloramines etc.