Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A segment of DNA that is capable of moving into a new position within the same or another chromosome or plasmid.
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- noun genetics a
segment ofDNA that can move to a different position within agenome
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- noun a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Advanced Information: The 2006 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2006
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The work also revealed that ZBED6 is a "transposon" - a piece of DNA that inserted into the genome at some point in evolution.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The work also revealed that ZBED6 is a "transposon" - a piece of DNA that inserted into the genome at some point in evolution.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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The transposon is usually a gene that codes for a protein.
Immune System Evolution #1: Comments on Annotated Bibliography - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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A transposon is a segment of DNA that can replicate itself and move around to different positions within the genome.
The Times of India 2010
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His nonviral method uses a jumping gene, called a transposon, to insert therapeutic genes into target cells.
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His nonviral method uses a jumping gene, called a transposon, to insert therapeutic genes into target cells.
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Sometimes called “jumping genes,” transposons are sections of DNA that can move from one region of the genome to another.
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