FRAMESHIFT

Etymology

Noun

frameshift (plural frameshifts)

frameshift mutation

Verb

frameshift (third-person singular simple present frameshifts, present participle frameshifting, simple past and past participle frameshifted)

To use a starting point for translating a series of nucleotides that is off by an amount not divisible by three, resulting in an entirely distinct set of codons.

Source: Wiktionary



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