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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Max DelbrückRelated: The fluctuation experiment tested whether mutations preceded selection by bacteriophage.

• Multidrug-resistant tuberculosisRelated: Mutations in bacterial drug targets or pathways can confer resistance to tuberculosis medicines.

• Evolutionary theoryRelated: Mutations ultimately supply new genetic variants for evolutionary processes to act on.

• Parallel evolutionRelated: Independent mutations can repeatedly supply variants that selection favors.

• Human genomeRelated: Mutations introduce new variation into human genomic sequences.

• NeoplasmRelated: Mutations can alter growth-control pathways in neoplastic cells.

• Tomas LindahlRelated: Unrepaired spontaneous DNA damage can become a mutation when DNA is copied.

• Divergent evolutionRelated: Mutations supply new variants upon which divergent evolutionary forces can act.

• History of evolutionary thoughtRelated: Genetic mutation provided a source of variation missing from early evolutionary theories.

• MacroevolutionRelated: Mutation supplies new genetic variants on which evolutionary processes act.

• Nucleic acid sequenceRelated: Mutations alter sequence order and can create new biological variants.