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The 73 pages that link to Mutation, each with the reason it gives.

• Antimicrobial resistanceRelated: A mutation can change a drug target or another cellular feature, making treatment less effective.

• Natural selectionRelated: Mutation supplies new inherited variants on which selection can act.

• Population geneticsRelated: It supplies new alleles for drift and selection to act on.

• AlleleCompared with: Mutation names a change; allele names a sequence form at a locus.

• Genetic driftCompared with: Mutation introduces alleles; drift changes their frequencies after they exist.

• EpigeneticsCompared with: Mutations alter DNA sequence; epigenetic changes alter gene activity without doing so.

• DNA replicationNarrower topic: Errors that persist after replication and repair can become mutations.

• Prenatal diagnosisRelated: A disease-causing DNA change may be detectable through targeted prenatal genetic testing.

• EvolutionRelated: It supplies new variants on which selection and other processes can act.

• Evolutionary biologyRelated: Mutations supply new genetic variants on which selection and drift can act.

• Genetic diversityRelated: Mutations introduce new genetic variants that can increase diversity.

• Genetic recombinationCompared with: Mutation creates new sequence variants; recombination primarily rearranges existing variants.

• CancerNarrower topic: Cancer-driving mutations alter genes that regulate cell growth and survival.

• DNA repairRelated: Damage that escapes repair can become a permanent mutation after DNA replication.

• Evolutionary developmental biologyRelated: Mutations supply changes that can alter developmental genes and regulatory sequences.

• GenotypeRelated: Mutations introduce new alleles that can alter an organism’s genotype.

• Asexual reproductionRelated: Mutations can make descendants differ genetically from an otherwise clonal parent.

• Allele frequencyRelated: Mutation introduces alleles and can alter their frequencies over time.

• DNA damageRelated: A lesion can become a mutation when copied or repaired inaccurately.

• Modern synthesisRelated: Mutation supplies new variation on which evolutionary processes can act.

• GenomeRelated: Mutations introduce sequence differences into genomes.

• Linkage disequilibriumRelated: New mutations arise on existing haplotypes, initially associating with nearby alleles.

• Common descentRelated: Mutations create differences that accumulate among descendant lineages.

• SpeciationRelated: Mutations supply genetic variation on which divergence can act.

• Comparative genomicsRelated: Accumulated mutations create many of the differences measured between genomes.

• Population bottleneckRelated: Mutation can restore variation lost in a bottleneck, usually over many generations.

• Single-nucleotide polymorphismRelated: A SNP originates as a single-base mutation that persists in a population.

• Drug resistanceRelated: Random mutations can alter drug targets or other traits that affect susceptibility.

• Jean-Baptiste LamarckRelated: Modern evolutionary biology traces new inherited variants to processes absent from Lamarck’s account.

• Genetic variationRelated: Mutations create new sequence variants that can add to genetic variation.

• Human genetic variationRelated: New mutations introduce variants not previously present in a lineage.

• HaplotypeRelated: New mutations add variants that can become part of a haplotype.

• Hardy–Weinberg principleCompared with: Mutation changes allele frequencies, unlike the principle’s no-mutation assumption.

• GeneticsRelated: Mutations create new genetic variants that can be inherited.

• Molecular evolutionRelated: Mutations introduce new sequence variants for evolutionary forces to act on.

• HeterozygosityRelated: New mutations can introduce alleles that make a locus heterozygous.

• Watson–Crick base pairingRelated: Incorrect or altered pairing can contribute to sequence changes during DNA copying.

• BuddingRelated: Mutations can create genetic differences among offspring produced by budding.

• Herbicide resistanceRelated: Some mutations alter herbicide targets or other traits in ways that permit survival.

• Antifungal resistanceRelated: Mutations can produce traits that reduce susceptibility to an antifungal drug.

• Epigenetic inheritanceCompared with: A mutation changes the inherited sequence itself, unlike epigenetic state transmission.

• LysenkoismCompared with: Mutation supplies a genetic mechanism for inherited variation that Lysenko’s doctrine rejected.

• MutagenesisNarrower topic: Mutagenesis describes the processes that generate these genetic changes.

• Molecular geneticsRelated: Mutations create new genetic variants and can alter gene function.

• Theodosius DobzhanskyRelated: Mutations generate new genetic variants on which selection and other evolutionary forces act.

• Viral evolutionRelated: Mutations supply new variants on which selection and other evolutionary processes act.

• Sanger sequencingRelated: Sequencing individual regions can identify substitutions and small insertions or deletions.

• Base pairRelated: A changed base can disrupt pairing or be copied as a new sequence variant.

• Germ cellRelated: Mutations arising in germ cells can be passed to offspring.

• Hugo de VriesNarrower topic: De Vries used the term for sudden heritable variations, though his examples were often chromosomal changes.