Any detectable and heritable change in the genetic material that causes a change in the GENOTYPE and which is transmitted to daughter cells and to succeeding generations.
Mutations
D000483
Alleles
Variant forms of the same gene, occupying the same locus on homologous CHROMOSOMES, and governing the variants in production of the same gene product.
Allelomorphs,Allele,Allelomorph
D001665
Binding Sites
The parts of a macromolecule that directly participate in its specific combination with another molecule.