HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Mutation comes from the Latin word mutationem meaning “a changing.” You might recognize this root in related words like mutate, mutable, and mutant.

Detailed explanation-2: -(myoo-TAY-shun) Any change in the DNA sequence of a cell. Mutations may be caused by mistakes during cell division, or they may be caused by exposure to DNA-damaging agents in the environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mutant stems from the Latin mutantem, which means “changing."

Detailed explanation-4: -(myoo-TAY-shun) A change in the usual DNA sequence at a particular gene locus. Although the term often has a negative connotation, mutations (including polymorphisms) can be harmful, beneficial, or neutral in their effect on cell function. The term variant is sometimes used as a synonym for the term mutation.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1901 the geneticist Hugo de Vries gave the name “mutation” to seemingly new forms that suddenly arose in his experiments on the evening primrose Oenothera lamarckiana.