misreplicate

Definitions

To make an error during replication.

ambitransitive

Examples

“During cell division there is a probability that either or both of the master replicons will misreplicate and one of the daughter cells will be missing a master copy⟳.”

“Thus when the second master unit begins to misreplicate, then in cells that still possess⟳ both units, the rate of misreplication becomes the same for both master units, even though they were initially lost at different rates.”

“Transcription errors cause a tector to misreplicate into a form⟳ symbiotic with living cells.”

“It is important to realize⟳ that errors in protein synthesis may also result⟳ in altered DNA polymerase, which would misreplicate DNA, thereby injecting errors into the genome that would lead⟳ to clones of abnormal cells (Orgel, 1973).”

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