Meanings
- not comparablecapable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents)
Size of circle indicates frequency of seedlings, continuous and direct but mutafacient and indirect.
1958, Genes, Plants, and People: Essays on Genetics, page 661 more example
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.
1945, Plant Breeding Abstracts: Volume 15, page 4Synonyms: mutagenic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecapable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents)
Origin
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