Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered;
SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species;
[syn: single nucleotide polymorphism, SNP]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
single nucleotide polymorphism
n 1: (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs
when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered; SNPs are
usually considered to be point mutations that have been
evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant
proportion of the population of a species [syn: single
nucleotide polymorphism, SNP]