transposon
IPA: trænspˈoʊzʌn
noun
- (genetics) A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species.
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Examples of "transposon" in Sentences
- They are a subclass of transposon.
- Spm has also been characterized as a transposon.
- His study focused on transposon sequences in DNA.
- This is from a transposon altering cytochrome P450.
- An entire prokaryotic transposon section is missing.
- Researchers use transposons as a means of mutagenesis.
- The transposon is usually a gene that codes for a protein.
- Next, the transposase moves the transposon to a suitable location.
- The book was inspired by the fascinating properties of transposons.
- Second, the behavior of the Tn 5 transposon is not entirely random.
- In this context, a transposon jumps into a gene and produces a mutation.
- His nonviral method uses a jumping gene, called a transposon, to insert therapeutic genes into target cells.
- A transposon is a segment of DNA that can replicate itself and move around to different positions within the genome.
- The work also revealed that ZBED6 is a "transposon" - a piece of DNA that inserted into the genome at some point in evolution.
- It has been proposed that in transposon-containing regions of the genome both DNA strands are transcribed, dsRNA is formed, and the RNAi process eliminates these undesirable products.
- At these positions, although the trigger works fine, and the transposon is silenced, once the trigger is lost, the transposon reawakens, said Jaswinder Singh, a professor in the Plant Sciences Department at McGill University, and lead author of the new article.
- So the thing which you think is most unlikely, the sudden incorporation of the transposon from a bacterium, right into the right spot in the right receptor in some early fish genome, didn't have to happen all in one step, indeed we now have evidence that it did not.