BharatNotes Mutation
nounUsage in a UPSC answer
The digitisation of land records and the seamless integration of mutation with registration under programmes such as SVAMITVA have curtailed the protracted litigation and bureaucratic discretion that once plagued the transfer of title in rural India.
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Word Family
mutate (v.), mutant (n./adj.), mutable (adj.), immutable (adj.), mutations (n. pl.), mutational (adj.)
Root
Latin mūtāre = to change; mūtātiōnem = a changing
Etymology
From Latin mūtātiōnem ("a changing"), from mūtāre ("to change"); first applied to genetics by Hugo de Vries in 1901.
Memory Hook
From Latin mutare 'to change' (think of a "mute" button that changes the sound, or "muta-tion" = a make-over): any deep, lasting change, whether in a gene or in a land record.
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