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Mutate vs Replicate - What's the difference?

mutate | replicate |

As verbs the difference between mutate and replicate

is that mutate is to undergo mutation while replicate is to make a copy (replica) of.

As a noun replicate is

an outcome of a procedure.

As an adjective replicate is

(botany|zoology) folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.

mutate

English

Verb

(mutat)
  • To undergo mutation.
  • To cause mutation.
  • replicate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a copy (replica) of.
  • (label) To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}
  • (label) To reply.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • an outcome of a procedure.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany, zoology) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.
  • a replicate leaf or petal
    the replicate margin of a shell