Meanings of beneficial mutation in English

The beneficial mutation interferes with BACE's ability to cleave APP.

People are scattered throughout the globe, so a beneficial mutation would have a long way to spread.

A beneficial mutation may improve an animal's prospects of survival, which means being around long enough to procreate more often.

This locus likely contains a novel, beneficial mutation that appeared between generations 40 and 45 and was driven to fixation in 5 to 10 generations.

Specifically, we experimentally validated the capacity of the genderless strain to reduce the mutational load and recombine beneficial mutations.

I just modified her a bit, added a few beneficial mutations and cybernetic upgrades, and voilà, the perfect security system.

However, asexual evolution is prone to competition among beneficial mutations (clonal interference) and the accumulation of hitchhiking and neutral mutations.

This result illustrates the dependence of continued long-term selection response on standing genetic variation at many loci as well as strong, novel, beneficial mutations.