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Mutant
An altered cell or organism resulting from mutation
(an alteration) of the original wild (normal) type. A
change from the normal to the unique or abnormal.
For example, in 1970, an orange-colored wild cauliflower was a discovered growing in Bradford Marsh in Canada. Its orange color resulted from a mutation which caused it to produce approximately 100 times more beta-carotene than original (wild type) cauliflower. If that particular mutation was of a single nucleotide in the cauliflower's DNA (e.g., caused by ultraviolet radiation striking it), then it is a point mutation.
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