transposons
- Subj. Area:
- IX Genetics, Human Reproduction and Sexuality
- Ger:
- Transposon
- Fr:
- transposon
- SN:
- Fragments of genetic material that can 'jump' to another position in the genome; use for all kinds of transposable elements, i.e. regardless of organism and of mechanism involved (DNA- or RNA-mediated)
- UF:
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DNA transposable elements
DNA transposons
insertion sequence elements
interspersed elements
jumping genes
retroelements
retroposons
transposable elements
- RT:
-
DNA
genetic vectors
mutation
retroviruses
RNA
- Conc:
-
B: -
E: -
I: -
M: Interspersed Repetitive Sequences (D020071)
