He then asked news organizations to tally up the number of Americans killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade and compare it with the number of Americans who have died in gun violence.
In molecular biology, a reading frame is a way of dividing the sequence of nucleotides in a nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) molecule into a set of consecutive, non-overlapping triplets. Where these triplets equate to amino acids or stop signals during translation, they are called codons.
A reading frame in a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that contains no termination codons and so can potentially translate as a polypeptide chain.Definition from: NCI Thesaurus via Unified Medical Language System at the National Library of Medicine. reading frame that does not contain a nucleotide triplet which stops translation before formation of a complete polypeptide -- abbreviation ORF. Definition from: Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary by Merriam-Webster Inc.