{"id":8499,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mutant\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:22","slug":"mutant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mutant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually an organism phenotypically affected in one or more characteristics by a mutation in a particular gene or chromosome. &nbsp;A mutant is not the same as an organism with a developmental abnormality, the latter arising during morphogenesis. &nbsp;Furthermore, a mutant may prove to be lethal in one condition, but not under another. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"character\">Character<\/a>, <a href=\"chromosome\">Chromosome<\/a>, <a href=\"gene\">Gene<\/a>, <a href=\"genotype_and_phenotype\">Genotype and phenotype<\/a>, <a href=\"morphogenesis\">Morphogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"mutagens\">Mutagens<\/a>, <a href=\"mutation_-biology-\">Mutation (biology)<\/a>, <a href=\"organism\">Organism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually an organism phenotypically affected in one or more characteristics by a mutation in a particular gene or chromosome. &nbsp;A mutant is not the same as an organism with a developmental abnormality, the latter arising during morphogenesis. &nbsp;Furthermore, a mutant may prove to be lethal in one condition, but not under another. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mutant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mutant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}