single nucleotide polymorphism

Noun single nucleotide polymorphism has 1 sense

• single nucleotide polymorphism(n = noun.phenomenon) snp - (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;
is a kind of polymorphism