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    3. 突然変異

    突然変異

    突とつ然ぜん変へん異い

    mutation

    KMT9News #25+1Noun, Participle, Verb, IntransitiveScience & MathMedicine & HealthKanji Vocab40 strokes

    とつぜんへんい

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Intransitive

    1.
    mutation
    biology

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    突とつ然ぜん変へん異いは生せい物ぶつの進しん化かに関かかわります。

    Mutations are involved in the evolution of living organisms.

    KMT8Science & Math
    DNAの突のと然つぜ変んへ異んいが病びょう気きの原げん因いんとなることがあります。

    DNA mutations can sometimes cause diseases.

    KMT9Science & MathMedicine & Health
    放ほう射しゃ線せんは生せい物ぶつの遺い伝でん子しに突とつ然ぜん変へん異いを引ひき起おこす可か能のう性せいがあります。

    Radiation can cause mutations in the genes of living organisms.

    KMT9Science & MathMedicine & Health
    突とつ然ぜん変へん異いは、新あたらしい形けい質しつを持もつ生せい物ぶつを生うみ出だすことがあります。

    Mutations can sometimes give rise to organisms with new traits.

    KMT9Science & Math
    がん細さい胞ぼうは、遺い伝でん子しの突とつ然ぜん変へん異いによって異い常じょうな増ぞう殖しょくを始はじめます。

    Cancer cells begin abnormal proliferation due to gene mutations.

    KMT9Medicine & HealthScience & Math

    Kanji that make up this word

    突
    つ.く…(2)
    stab・protruding・thrust・pierce・prick…(2)
    然
    しか・しか.り・しか.し・さ…(2)
    sort of thing・so・if so・in that case・well
    変
    か.わる・か.わり・か.える…(1)
    unusual・change・strange
    異
    こと・こと.なる・け…(1)
    uncommon・different・queerness・strangeness・wonderful…(2)
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