Other helpful Mandarin phrases: While Mandarin has a wealth of generalized insults for the intellectually stunted (Sha gua means retard--literally stupid melon), it really brings the heat with insults that don't sound at all insulting.
frameshift mutation / frame-shift mutation; frameshift. A frameshift mutation is a genetic mutation caused by a deletion or insertion in a DNA sequence that shifts the way the sequence is read. A DNA sequence is a chain of many smaller molecules called nucleotides.
As it seems, point mutations are of few types, but the result is always a change in a single nucleotide. The number of the nucleotides is not changed, but the structure will be different; hence, the function of the gene may be altered. What is the difference between Frameshift Mutation and Point Mutation? â¢ The frame of the DNA strand is shifted one way or the other in a frameshift mutation, whereas point mutations do not change the frame of the DNA strand. â¢ The gene structure and the number of nucleotides are changed in frameshift mutations while point mutations cause only the structure of a gene.