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Muton

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muton [′myü‚tän]
(cell and molecular biology)
The smallest unit of genetic material capable of undergoing mutation.

Muton 

the unit of mutation; the smallest section of a gene. Mutation is a change in a muton, leading to the emergence of a new, mutant form of a given organism. The terms “muton,” “cistron,” and “recon” were proposed by the American geneticist S. Benzer in 1957 to describe a definite gene function. The term “muton” later fell into disuse because it became clear that the muton corresponds to one pair of nucleotides in the DNA molecule and to a single nucleotide in viruses, which contain only single-stranded DNA or RNA.



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Breakfast in the household of Henry Percy, ninth earl of Northumberland, according to the household accounts from 1564 to 1632, for the earl and his lady on a 'flesh day' was 'a loofe of bred in trenchors, 2 manchets, 1 quart bere, 1 quart wyne, a Chyne of Muton or Chyne of Beef Boilid' "; the two older sons had " '2 loaf of household Breid, a Manchet, 1 Potell [two quarts] of Bere, a Chekynge [chicken] or ells 3 mutton Bonys boyled.
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