Mutagen
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A
mutagen (
Latin, roughly
change maker) is an agent that changes the genetic information (usually
DNA) of an
organism and thus increases the number of
mutations above the natural background level. Mutagens can be chemical compounds or
radiation.
There are several methods to detect how mutagenic an agent is:
See also : teratogenesis -- DNA repair --
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