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Mutual masturbation
Masturbation as a couple activity in which each person sexually stimulates himself or herself while the partner does the same or observes the other.
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Mutually exclusive categories
In epidemiology, a situation in which each subject appears in only one category.
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Mutuality
According to Levinger, the stage of a relationship in which a couple thinks of themselves as “we.”
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Muton
The smallest unit of DNA that can undergo change resulting in a mutation. Smallest unit of the hereditary material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in which a change can produce a mutation.
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Mutator genes
Genes that increase the frequency of mutations in other genes.
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Mutation rate
The chance of occurrence of a mutation in a given length of time.
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Mutation pressure
A constant mutation rate that adds mutant genes to a population.
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Mutation, directed, or specific
A mutation with a specific environmental cause.
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Mutagenic effect
A production of a sudden change in the parent’s genes that appears in the offspring due to a chemical or physical force, mutagenic.
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Mutable genes
Those genes with an unusually high mutation rate.
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