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- adjective Not
mutant . - noun A creature that is not a mutant.
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Examples
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First, he was introduced as a normal, nonmutant love interest for Kitty.
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #134 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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First, fruitless-bearing male flies, unlike nonmutant male flies, actively court other males as well as females, although for reasons that remain poorly understood, they are unable actually to achieve intercourse with members of either sex.
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Second, fruitless-bearing males elicit and are receptive to courtship from other males, which nonmutant males reject.
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Second, fruitless-bearing males elicit and are receptive to courtship from other males, which nonmutant males reject.
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First, fruitless-bearing male flies, unlike nonmutant male flies, actively court other males as well as females, although for reasons that remain poorly understood, they are unable actually to achieve intercourse with members of either sex.
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The guts of the Hawaiian worms and npr-1 mutant lab strain worms glowed bright green under the microscope, while the guts of the nonmutant lab strain worms did not.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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The key role of TBK1 was identified in a large-scale search using the combined resources of Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute to hunt for genes that were essential exclusively to cells with mutant KRAS, but not to cells with wild-type (nonmutant) KRAS or other normal cells.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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In contrast, the nonmutant lab strain worms avoided the bacteria and survived longer.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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The results suggest that the aversion the nonmutant lab worms show to crawling on bacteria - enabled by the strain's particular version of the npr-1 gene - is what ensured their survival, rather than the strengths of their immune systems.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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The mice didn't talk, but they did seem to squeak differently from their nonmutant cousins, says Julia Fischer, who studies speech evolution at the
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2008
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