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Transposable elements are used to map genes.
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A segment of a bacterial genome, as a cosmid clone, has been identified by complementation as containing a functional gene. The precise location of the gene on the cosmid is not known.
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Transposable element
A transposon or insertion sequence. An element that can insert in a variety of DNA sequences.
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transposable element - see transposon
transposon - mobile segment of DNA capable of "hopping" into or out of chromosomal DNA; ...
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Transposable element A class of DNA sequences that can move from one chromosomal site to another.
Trisomy Possessing three copies of a particular chromosome instead of the normal two copies.
See also: cell, gene, gene expression, chromosome ...
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Group of transposable elements that were detected by Saedler, Starling and Shapiro. They constist of 800 to 2000 base pairs and carry inverted repeats at their ends.
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Transposons (transposable elements) are genes that can move ("jump") from one DNA molecule to another in a cell, or from one location to another on the same DNA molecule.
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A Drosophila transposable element that has been used as a tool for insertion mutagenesis and for germline transformation.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ...
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They are usually caused by transposable elements, or errors during replication of repeating elements (e.g. AT repeats).
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Jirtle, "Transposable elements: Targets for early nutritional effects on epigenetic gene regulation", Molecular and Cellular Biology 2003 August 1;23(15):5293-5300.
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Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs)
The recent completion of the genome sequence of rice and C. elegans has revealed that their genomes contain thousands of copies of a recurring motif consisting of ...
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Transposable element Section of DNA which can copy itself and insert the copy into another position in the chromosome or another chromosome. Free transposons are not found; they spread via transposition into mobile DNA molecules such as plasmids.
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transposon (transposable element) A segment of DNA that can move from one position in the genome to another. tri- three triacyiglycerol An ester of glycerol with three molecules of fatty acid; also called a triglyceride or neutral fat.
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