FRAMESHIFT


Meaning of FRAMESHIFT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈfrām-ˌshift ]

adjective

Date: 1967

: relating to, being, or causing a mutation in which a number of nucleotides not divisible by three is inserted or deleted so as to change the reading frame of some triplet codons during genetic translation

• frameshift noun

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