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frameshift mutations

frameshift mutations is the plural of frameshift mutation.

Meaning of frameshift mutation

Noun

frameshift mutation (countable and uncountable, plural frameshift mutations)

  1. A genetic mutation that either inserts or deletes a number of nucleotides that is not divisible by three (i.e., a non-integer number of codons), altering the reading frame of the portion of the gene downstream of the mutation and causing it to code for a completely different protein sequence.

Questions about frameshift mutations

What is frameshift mutations the plural of?
Frameshift mutations is the plural of frameshift mutation.

Words near frameshift mutations in the dictionary

  1. frameset
  2. framesets
  3. framesful
  4. frameshift
  5. frameshift mutation
  6. frameshift mutations
  7. frameshifted
  8. frameshifter
  9. frameshifters
  10. frameshifting
  11. frameshiftings

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