Associations to the word «Missense»
Noun
- Mutation
- Deletion
- Phenotype
- Insertion
- Allele
- Nucleotide
- Nonsense
- Substitution
- Gene
- Mrna
- Carcinoma
- Syndrome
- Chromosome
- Deficiency
- Subunit
- Protein
- Residue
- Domain
- Alteration
- Kinase
- Genes
- Locus
- Receptor
- Termination
- Abnormality
- Dna
- Patient
- Ligand
- Binding
- Mu
- Defect
- Variant
- Enzyme
- Sequence
- Correlation
- Lesion
- Onset
- Atp
- Disease
- Acid
- Cause
- Disorder
- Tumor
- Frame
- Synthesis
- Diagnosis
- Beta
- Repeat
- Substrate
- Affect
- Function
- Type
- Molecule
Adjective
Wiktionary
MISSENSE, noun. (biology) 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.
MISSENSE MUTATION, noun. A point mutation that results in the substitution of one amino acid by another.
MISSENSE MUTATIONS, noun. Plural of missense mutation
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.