Category:GO:0006280 ! obsolete mutagenesis

This GO term has been obsoleted. Do not annotate to it.

id: GO:0006280
name: obsolete mutagenesis
namespace: biological_process
def: "OBSOLETE. The process by which genetic material undergoes a detectable and heritable structural change. There are three categories of mutation: genome mutations, involving addition or subtraction of one or more whole chromosomes; chromosome mutations, which alter the structure of chromosomes; and gene mutations, where the structure of a gene is altered at the molecular level." [ISBN:0198506732]
comment: This term was made obsolete because mutagenesis is not a valid biological process in which gene products would normally participate. Rather, mutations arise from DNA replication errors or damage by an extrinsic agent.
synonym: "mutagenesis" EXACT []
is_obsolete: true
consider: GO:0006281 ! DNA repair
consider: GO:0051276 ! chromosome organization

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