mutafacient
adjEtymology From muta- + -facient.
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capable of inducing mutation (used mainly of intracellular agents)
- After indicating the mode in which these factors interact in determining the development of the organism and in affecting their own activist, it is shown that they have also a mutafacient action, i.e. are able to affect each other's mutation rates.1945, Plant Breeding Abstracts: Volume 15, page 4:
- Size of circle indicates frequency of seedlings, continuous and direct but mutafacient and indirect.1958, Genes, Plants, and People: Essays on Genetics, page 66:
- Synonyms
- mutagenic