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the process of changing the inheritable genetic structure of an organism

The bacteria mutated and is now resistant to the antibiotic.

Science has taught us that normal genes in cells can be damaged or mutated to become deadly "oncogenes" that result in cancer.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
The figures of Dick and herself, mutating, undefined, appeared as spooks caught up into a fantastic dance.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
His adolescent physique and childlike face had drastically mutated when he flooded his young body with experimental growth hormones and steroids.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
She laughed softly, but the laughter mutated into a cough that she couldn't easily suppress.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
The warmth in Rémy's throat, however, mutated quickly to an uncomfortable heat.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
He could tell Ron, though; Ron had caused a dinner plate to mutate into a large mushroom and had no idea how it had happened.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
It was when it showed up, and even now this virus that can mutate in infinite ways to thwart nearly any treatment eludes our efforts to corral it.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
E. coli 0157:H7 is a mutated version of a bacterium found abundantly in the human digestive system.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Everyone gets all mutated?
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
This whole idea of mutated bacteria seemed farfetched and unlikely to the Wildfire people.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
I'm not some ugly, mutated beast.
Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
He descends into dreams in which Frederick's mother mutates into a leering, small-mouthed demon and lowers Dr. Hauptmann's triangles over his head.
Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
"The radiation might have mutated the genetic material hundreds of years ago, but there wouldn't be any trace of it now."
Kass Morgan -- The 100
He fired a cannonball spider at the doors of the factory; in midair it mutated from ball to massive black spider and tore through the doors.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
Surely he understood that her signature might not have survived, or that it might not work on the mutated vaccine.
Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
Many of them had mutated.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
Do you think there's really some giant mutated grizzly out there?
Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
Violence against women is also constantly mutating into new forms.
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
You are fighting that which is unfixed, mutating, indestructible.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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