SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

(genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species

Synonyms:

single nucleotide polymorphism; SNP

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("single nucleotide polymorphism" is a kind of...):

polymorphism ((genetics) the genetic variation within a population that natural selection can operate on)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

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