We have been using the term 'mutation' pretty loosely up to this point in the course...now we need to define it more precisely: mutation-- a change in the genetic material (ie. DNA).
Stay of proceedings. A stay of proceedings is a ruling by the court in civil and criminal procedure, halting further legal process in a trial or other legal proceeding. The court can subsequently lift the stay and resume proceedings based on events taking place after the stay is ordered.
Re: Stay of Imposition. This term of art is short for stay of imposition of sentence.. In Minnesota, if a criminal defendant pleads guilty to a criminal charge, the judge accepts the guilty plea, but stays imposition of sentence, that means the court is delaying (staying) sentencing for some period of time on certain conditions.