misincorporated

Mistakenly built in

Misincorporated means wrongly or erroneously incorporated into something.

The term appears most often in molecular biology, where enzymes may misincorporate the wrong nucleotide during DNA replication: The polymerase misincorporated adenine instead of guanine.

Outside technical contexts, it can describe any faulty inclusion: Several errors were misincorporated into the final draft.

error

mistake

Wrong action or decision

irregularity · discrepancy · omission · faulty · anomaly · erroneous · incorrect · wrongly · improperly · inadvertently

genetics

mutation

Permanent DNA alteration

mispairing · DNA · genome · transcription · codon · frameshift · proofreading · mismatch · fidelity · mutagenesis

corporate

entity

Independent existing thing

dissolution · charter · bylaws · formation · legal · documentation · compliance · amendment · certificate · articles

Opposites
presence vs. absence of incorporation

misincorporatedexcluded

Shut out, denied entry

omitted · unincorporated · left out · removed · deleted

Family

incorporate, incorporated, incorporating, incorporates, incorporation, incorporations, corporate, corporates, corporately

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