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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mutation in a DNA chain that occurs when the number of nucleotides inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three, so that every codon beyond the point of insertion or deletion is read incorrectly during translation.
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- noun genetics a
genetic mutation that eitherinserts ordeletes a series ofnucleotides that is notdivisible by three and thusdisrupts gene expression bycodons
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