missense

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English

Etymology

mis- +‎ sense

Noun

missense (countable and uncountable, plural missenses)

(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.

See also

nonsense (biology)

Anagrams

Essenism

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