transposon
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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)
Transposon in a sentence
An alternative approach to the use of retroviruses was to use a DNA transposon to integrate DNA into zebrafish chromosomes.
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