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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

frame•shift n. [Genetics.]

Geneticsthe addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.

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