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Transversion

noun

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

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From trans- + -version. Compare conversion.

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