transversion

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A point mutation in which a purine is replaced with a pyrimidine, or vice versa
2. noun The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.

Similar words

transition mutation retromutation paramutation pseudoreversion retrotransposition retromutagenesis frameshift mutation shift backmutation

Often followed by

at mutations in mutation ratio of rate bias rates