|a sudden departure from the parent type an heritable
characteristic caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome| |an
organism that is not adapted to prevailing conditions or
producing offspring that maintain its contribution of genes to
the next generation| |1.||the act of modifying or the condition
of being modified| |2.||something modified; the result of a
modification| |3.||a small change or adjustment| |4.||grammar
the relation between a modifier and the word or phrase that it
modifies| modification mod·i·fi·ca·tion (mŏd'ə-fĭ-kā'shən) Any
of the changes in an organism that are caused by environment or
activity and are not genetically transmissable to offspring.
|modification (mŏd'ə-fĭ-kā'shən) Pronunciation Key A change in
an organism that results from external influences and cannot be
inherited.