missense
missense · missenses
A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the…A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
Forms
plural: missensesWord family
2 related wordsRelatednonsenseB1
Derivedmissense mutation
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable