See Also: proteiform(medicine)
proteiform(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
spontaneous(dictionary)
SPONTANEOUS(medicine)
spontaneous(dictionary)
fractures, spontaneous(medicine)
spontaneous emission(medicine)
spontaneous evolution(medicine)

spontaneous mutation (medicine) and proteiform (iou)


spontaneous mutation (medicine)


spontaneous mutation


A mutation which occurs by itself without first being affected by a mutagen, for example during the process of DNA replication. Spontaneous mutations arise at a remarkably constant rate. The rate that spontaneous mutations arise has been used as an evolutionary clock to estimate how closely related two (or more) separate species are to each Other.


proteiform (iou)



proteiform adjective. L18.
[from PROTEUS + -I- + -FORM.]
Changeable in form, assuming many forms; protean, multiform, extremely variable or various.