Word: frameshifts
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: fra
me
shifts
Definition: Plural of frameshift. 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.
Morphemes:
Affix: frame
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A way of dividing nucleotide sequences into a set of consecutive triplets.
Affix: shift
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A mutation in which the DNA or RNA from two different sources (such as viruses or bacteria) combine.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form regular plurals of nouns.