frameshift

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A frameshift mutation.
2. verb 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.

Similar words

ribosomal mutagens frameshift mutation frameshifter shift macromutation mutation makeshift transition transversion

Often followed by

mutations mutation and mutagens in site mutants or suppression

Word family

frameshifts