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mutate

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See: convert, transform, vary


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A gene or two happened to change, or mutate, so that the cricket wing couldn't chirp anymore.
But these regions aren't usually important to the pathogen's survival, so they often mutate, he says.
Writing in the October 15 edition of the journal AIDS, a team of Belgian scientists said that as the AIDS virus mutates to thwart the body's immune system, it is slowly losing its ability to kill.
 
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