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frameshift

The English word “frameshift” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A frameshift mutation.

verb

  1. 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.

Etymology

From frame + shift.

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