Mutagen

In biology, a mutagen (Latin, literally origin of change) is an agent that changes the genetic information (usually DNA) of an organism and thus increases the number of mutations above the natural background level.

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Mutagens are usually chemical compounds or radiation.

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The Ames test is one method to determine how mutagenic an agent is.

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• carcinogen
• DNA repair
• genetics
• teratogen

Latin: Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The ...

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