What is "mutagenic"

Usage examples of "mutagenic".

Godzillas, lagoon creatures, giant Gila monsters: nothing now prevents life from running amok in the shower of mutagenic material already unleashed.

Marketing thalidomide in the Third World, for instance, long after the mutagenic tranquilizer had been discredited in the more advanced industrial nations, and investing in primitive cryogenics projects that sold a dubious promise of prolonged existence to the desperate, the fearful, and the terminally ill.

I believe that we can perform a mild detonation in a controlled environment by installing nanocapacitors to limit the field dispersion and mutagenic flux.

Lord Strongbow and his Imperial Dragoons were mutagenic alterations of human biology, and Colonel C.

The Swarm Mother, thirty kilometers long and filled with biomass and tailored mutagenic DNA, was too vulnerable herself to biologic attack to run the risk of creating offspring that might devour its mother.

Only when I had climbed above the mutagenic goo that E1 Paso-Juarez calls air did I begin to relax.

In the celestial cities of the conservative Commonwealth, mutagenic Makers had long ago been outlawed.

In the celestial cities of the conservative Commonwealth, mutagenic Makers had long ago been outlawed.

As his parents' only child—as the father, perhaps, of some future Count Vorkosigan—it was arguable if he even had the right to expose himself to such a vile mutagenic hazard for mere curiosity.

The Swarm Mother, thirty kilometers long and filled with boimass and tailored mutagenic DNA, was too vulnerable herself to biologic attack to run the risk of creating offspring that might devour its mother.

Also, errors can happen spontaneously or be induced in existing DNA by such agents as mutagenic chemicals and ionizing radiation.