misreplicate

To make an error during replication.

Verb

  1. To make an error during replication.
    • 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. - 1970, Michael Abercrombie, Jean Brachet, Thomas...
    • 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...
    • Transcription errors cause a tector to misreplicate into a form symbiotic with living cells. - 2011, Ian McDonald, Necroville:

Origin

From mis- + replicate.

Forms

misreplicates misreplicating misreplicated