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.
A point mutation is a change in a single base pair in DNA. A change in a single nitrogenous base can change the entire structure of a protein because a change in a single aminâ¦o acid can affect the shape of the protein. A frameshift mutation is a mutation in which a single base is added or deleted from DNA.