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missenses

missenses is the plural of missense.

missenses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of missense.

Meaning of missense

Noun

missense (countable and uncountable, plural missenses)

  1. A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.

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Questions about missenses

What is missenses the plural of?
Missenses is the plural of missense.

Words near missenses in the dictionary

  1. missends
  2. missense
  3. missense mutation
  4. missense mutations
  5. missensed
  6. missenses
  7. missensing
  8. missent
  9. missequence
  10. missequenced
  11. missequences

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