1 A solid. 2  There is one unusual exception. 3  Native mercury is a mineral and is the only metal that is a liquid at normal temperatures. 4  Has a regular crystal structure. A solid. 2  There is one unusual exception. 3  Native mercury is a mineral and is the only metal that is a liquid at normal temperatures. 4  Has a regular crystal structure.
A frameshift mutation (also called a framing error or a reading frame shift) is a genetic mutation caused by indels (insertions or deletions) of a number of nucleotides in a DNA sequence that is not divisible by three.
frameshift an altered reading of the GENETIC CODE during TRANSLATION in PROTEIN SYNTHESIS, caused by a change in the nucleotide base sequence of DNA and RNA due to the insertion or deletion of one or more bases (except three bases or multiples of three bases). Fig. 165 shows an example of a DNA base insertion between bases 4' and 5'.