Translate mutate | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of mutate
verb
change or cause to change in form or nature: [no object]:technology continues to mutate at an alarming rate [with object]:the quick-dry solution really worked, even if it did mutate the skin on her fingers to reptilian scales Biology (with reference to a cell, DNA molecule, etc.) undergo or cause to undergo change in a gene or genes: [no object]:the virus is able to mutate into new forms that are immune to the vaccine [with object]:certain nucleotides were mutated
