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Meaning of "mutationist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MUTATIONIST

mutationist  [mjuːˈteɪʃənɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUTATIONIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mutationist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MUTATIONIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mutationist in the English dictionary

The definition of mutationist in the dictionary is a supporter of mutation theory as a means of explaining evolution.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUTATIONIST


abolitionist
ˌæbəˈlɪʃənɪst
assimilationist
əˌsɪmɪˈleɪʃənɪst
causationist
kɔːˈzeɪʃənɪst
collaborationist
kəˌlæbəˈreɪʃənɪst
conservationist
ˌkɒnsəˈveɪʃənɪst
educationist
ˌɛdʒʊˈkeɪʃənɪst
exhibitionist
ˌɛksɪˈbɪʃənɪst
integrationist
ˌɪntɪˈɡreɪʃənɪst
intuitionist
ˌɪntjʊˈɪʃənɪst
isolationist
ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃənɪst
liberationist
ˌlɪbəˈreɪʃənɪst
nutritionist
njuːˈtrɪʃənɪst
oppositionist
ˌɒpəˈzɪʃənɪst
preservationist
ˌprɛzəˈveɪʃənɪst
prohibitionist
ˌprəʊɪˈbɪʃənɪst
reservationist
ˌrɛzəˈveɪʃənɪst
salvationist
sælˈveɪʃənɪst
segregationist
ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃənɪst
transmutationist
ˌtrænzmjuːˈteɪʃənɪst
vacationist
vəˈkeɪʃənɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUTATIONIST

mutably
mutagen
mutagenesis
mutagenic
mutagenically
mutagenicity
mutagenise
mutagenize
mutandum
mutant
Mutare
mutase
mutate
mutation
mutation stop
mutational
mutationally
mutatis mutandis
mutative
mutatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUTATIONIST

accordionist
agonist
antagonist
cartoonist
communist
constructionist
dental receptionist
evolutionist
expressionist
fashionist
illusionist
impressionist
perfectionist
projectionist
protagonist
receptionist
reductionist
revolutionist
saxophonist
trade unionist
Zionist

Synonyms and antonyms of mutationist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mutationist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUTATIONIST

Find out the translation of mutationist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mutationist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mutationist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

mutationist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mutacionista
570 millions of speakers

English

mutationist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mutationist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mutationist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

mutationist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mutacionista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mutationist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mutationniste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mutasiis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mutationist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mutationist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mutationist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mutasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mutationist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mutationist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फरक करणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mutationist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mutationist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mutationist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

mutationist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mutationist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mutationist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mutationist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mutationist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mutationist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mutationist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUTATIONIST»

The term «mutationist» is normally little used and occupies the 133.640 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUTATIONIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mutationist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUTATIONIST»

Discover the use of mutationist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mutationist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Evolutionary Models and Studies in Human Diversity
THE MUTATIONIST MODEL OF GENETIC EVOLUTION The rediscovery of the particulate nature of genetic information at the turn of the century by De Vries, Tschermak, and Correns soon led to a schism between the adherents of the theory of ...
Robert J. Meier, Charlotte M. Otten, Fathi Abdel-Hameed, 1978
2
Alfred Marshall: Critical Assessments. Second series
One can be a Mendelian without necessarily being a mutationist! Apparently, mutationist biology is again in the news, this time in the form of "punctuated equilibria," see "Is Man a Subtle Accident?" Newsweek (3 November 1980):95-96 . 56.
John Cunningham Wood, 1996
3
Thinking about Life: The history and philosophy of biology ...
... The Mutationist (Saltationist) School In 1894, the zoologist William Bateson ( 1861–1926), who coined the word 'genetics', published a large study of the empirical evidence favouring either continuous or discontinuous variation in natural ...
Paul S. Agutter, Denys N. Wheatley, 2008
4
Sewall Wright and Evolutionary Biology
Shortly after the rediscovery of Mendelism, most geneticists followed the lead of William Bateson and Hugo de Vries in adopting a "mutationist" view of evolution. Natural selection and artificial breeders, according to the mutationist view, ...
William B. Provine, 1989
5
Darwinism's Struggle for Survival: Heredity and the ...
62, 64-7, 400, 42 In 1 5; viability and fertility, 240-2 Darwinian selection: Galton's criticism, 153-74; Jenkin's criticism, 90-7; mutationist criticism of natural selection, 254- 73; the term, 60, 84 decline of the principle at turn of 20th c., 1-4,272 ...
Jean Gayon, 1998
6
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and ...
Yii Chao-Lung ( + 18th-century physicist), 99 Yii Chi Thu (Map of the Tracks of Yii (the Great)), 52 Yii Fan (Taoist and mutationist), 233, 238 Yii Hsi (astronomer, Jr. + 307 to + 338), 270 Yii Hsin ( + 6th-century cavalry general), 321 Yii Huan Chi ...
Joseph Needham, 1962
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Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set: Online version
The first was the conflict between the 'gradualist' Darwinian school and the ' mutationist' school represented by geneticists such as H. de Vries and later R. Goldschmidt. While the work of R. A. Fisher reconciled the alleged conflict between ...
‎2008
8
Strickberger's Evolution
Supporting the mutationist position were Wilhelm Johannsen's experiments, from which he concluded that selection was ineffective in quantitatively changing the size of beans descended from homozygous pure (inbred) lines. Furthermore ...
Brian K. Hall, Benedikt Hallgrímsson, 2011
9
Charles Darwin, Geologist
There is no record from the voyage, so far as I am aw are, of Charles Darwin's reflections on his grandfather's imaginative speculations on trans- mutationist ideas, or, for that matter, on those entertained by the French naturalist Jean Baptiste ...
Sandra Herbert, 2005
10
The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification ...
year Guyenot had become a convinced Morganian and published articles pleading for a mutationist, non-Lamarckian viewpoint. In 1924 he published the first textbook on classical genetics in French. After Caullery visited Morgan in 1916 he ...
Ernst Mayr, William B. Provine, 1998

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUTATIONIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mutationist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Biology Direct Paper: We Must Abandon Darwinism, but Also …
Update, 6/4/2013: Dr. Stoltzfus does go on to offer a "mutationist conception of evolution," which deemphasizes the role of selection and claims ... «Discovery Institute, Oct 12»

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