mutates

英 [mjuːˈteɪts]

美 [ˈmjuːteɪts]

v.  (使)变异，突变; 转变; 转换
mutate的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)变异;(使)突变
  If an animal or plantmutates, or somethingmutatesit, it develops different characteristics as the result of a change in its genes.
  1. The virus mutates in the carrier's body...
     病毒会在携带者体内发生变异。
  2. A newer anti-HIV drug called pyridinone caused HIV to mutate into a form which could not reproduce or infect new cells...
     一种叫作吡啶酮的新型抗艾滋病药物能促使艾滋病毒变异，使其不能繁殖，也不会再感染新的细胞。
  3. The technique has been to mutate the genes by irradiation or chemicals...
     该技术是通过放射线照射或者使用化学方法使基因变异。
  4. He found evidence of mutated forms of the gene.
     他找到了该基因出现了变异形式的证据。
• VERB 变化;变成
  If somethingmutates intosomething different, it changes into that thing.
  1. Overnight, the gossip begins to mutate into headlines.
     一夜之间，传闻变成了报纸的头条新闻。

双语例句

• You don't have time to put in place a stockpile if the virus mutates.
  如果病毒发生变异，你没有时间去进行储备。
• The virus mutates in the carrier's body
  病毒会在携带者体内发生变异。
• As HIV mutates and comes up against different drugs, it learns to develop resistance against against other drugs in the same class.
  HIV针对不同的药物发生突变，产生对同类药物的耐药能力。
• The tip of the spike mutates continually, which means that flu vaccines must be redefined every year.
  这种刺突的尖端不断变异，这意味着流感疫苗必须每年重新修改。
• There are a lot of antiviral drugs, but they are often ineffective as HIV mutates quickly and acquires drug resistance.
  虽然抗病毒药物有很多，但是当HIV-1很快发生变异或产生耐药性时，它们通常都失去了作用。
• So if one of the anticancer genes mutates, the cell it is in may reproduce more than it is supposed to.
  所以，如果其中一个抗癌基因发生突变，其所在细胞的繁殖规模就可能比正常情况下要大。
• How did it happen virus mutates? At present, we have a vaccine can keep pace with the speed of variation?
  病毒变异是如何发生的？目前，我们拥有的疫苗能否跟得上变异的速度？
• Initial outbreaks of a relatively benign form of flu have often been followed several months later by a much more virulent strain as the virus mutates.
  随着这种病毒的突变，相对温和的流感的最初暴发之后的几个月常常跟随着一个更具毒力的毒株。
• But like the flu jab, R genes can be rendered useless if a pathogen mutates into a slightly modified form.
  但是就像流感发作一样，如果病原变异为稍有不同的形式，R基因就会毫无用武之地。
• The dialectic of concentration versus competition continues, even as it mutates into new forms.
  集中与竞争之间的对立关系尽管演变为新的形态，但仍在继续。