English Explanatory Dictionary

transversion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A point mutation in which a purine is replaced with a pyrimidine, or vice versa
  2. The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.

Word forms

transversion transversions

Etymology

From trans- + -version. Compare conversion.

Related words

transition
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