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- noun Displacement backward, but without flexion or version: said of the uterus.
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- noun genetics The
insertion of a fragment ofDNA into achromosome followingreverse transcription
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Examples
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The authors also reported that the mouse Rps23r1 gene, whose human counterpart has not yet been identified, was created during evolution through a process called retroposition, in which a gene is "duplicated" through the reverse transcription of mRNA and the "duplicate" is placed in a different location in the cell's DNA.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The team also found that the Rps23r1 gene, whose human counterpart has not yet been identified, was created through a process called retroposition, in which a gene is duplicated through the reverse transcription (or reading) of mRNA and the duplicate is placed in a different location in the cell's DNA.
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Briefly, the various mechanisms discussed in the review include exon shuffling, gene duplication, retroposition, recruitment of mobile element sequences, lateral gene transfer, gene fusion, and de novo origination.
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Briefly, the various mechanisms discussed in the review include exon shuffling, gene duplication, retroposition, recruitment of mobile element sequences, lateral gene transfer, gene fusion, and de novo origination.
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By duplication, amplification, recombination, retroposition, and similar mechanisms, nuons can give rise to “potonuons,” that is, entities potentially recruitable as new nuons.
Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009
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They include exon shuffling, gene duplication, retroposition, transposable elements, lateral gene transfer, gene fusion/fission and coding regions arising de novo from non-coding regions.
Egnor responds, falls flat on his face - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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For example, when a retroposition occurs, it is the result of reverse transcription, not some arbitrary, accidental happenstance.
Egnor responds, falls flat on his face - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Does retroposition occur independently of reverse transcription?
Egnor responds, falls flat on his face - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Briefly, the various mechanisms discussed in the review include exon shuffling, gene duplication, retroposition, recruitment of mobile element sequences, lateral gene transfer, gene fusion, and de novo origination.
On the evolution of Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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For example, when a retroposition occurs, it is the result of reverse transcription, not some arbitrary, accidental happenstance.
Egnor responds, falls flat on his face - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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