GENERAL MICROBIOLOGY - T.P. Pyrog - 2004

19. BACTERIAL GENETICS: CONSTANCY, VARIATION AND TRANSMISSION OF TRAITS

19.2. MUTATIONS AND THEIR ORIGIN

The term "mutation" was first introduced by the Dutch botanist H. de Vries, who studied variation and heredity in plants. He defined mutation as abrupt changes in hereditary traits. Later, M.W. Beijerinck extended this concept to Bacteria as well. Based on The concepts of genotype and phenotype, a mutation can be defined as follows: a mutation is A change in the genotype that manifests in the phenotype.

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