ALL meanings of frameshift
frame·shift
F f - noun frameshift the 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. 1
- noun frameshift Frameshift mutation. 1
- noun frameshift a frameshift mutation is a genetic mutation in which a number of nucleotides not divisible by three are either inserted into or deleted from a nucleic acid sequence 0