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The transposition of a transposable element to a new location without it being lost from the original location.
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Transposition
Moving a DNA segment from one position of the genome to another or to a different genome. This change in genome structure happens in many organisms from bacteria to higher plants and animals.
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Transposition is coupled to replication by the DNA synthesis-methylation cycle acting at two sites: the promoter for transposase and the DNA target site of the transposase.
Copy number control is exercised by the level of the outward transcript.
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Transpositional recombination
Another form of site-specific recombination, transpositional recombination does not require an identical strand of DNA in the mobile element to match with the target DNA.
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Transposition in these cases occurs by a "copy (command/control-C) and paste (command/control-V)" mechanism. This requires an additional enzyme — a resolvase — that is also encoded in the transposon itself.
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Transposition
The movement of a discrete segment of DNA from one location in the genome to another.
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Transposition: The movement of DNA from one location to another location on the same molecule, or a different molecule within a cell.
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Another is transposition. This is when a stretch of DNA simply excises itself from one part of genome and moves itself to another. Transposons are pieces of DNA that do this.
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Transposons are sequences of DNA that can move around to different positions within the genome of a single cell, a process called transposition. In the process, they can cause mutations and change the amount of DNA in the genome.
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Free transposons are not found; they spread via transposition into mobile DNA molecules such as plasmids.
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In vitro transposition was used to introduce a selectable marker as well as a plasmid replicon that is functional in E. coli.
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They mostly come in as chunks of DNA by so-called "transposition" or in some cases "retro transposition" from autosomes. These events have brought to the Y chromosome new genes that appear to be critical for spermagenesis.
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A mobile piece of DNA that is flanked by terminal repeat sequences and typically bears genes coding for transposition functions. See transposable genetic element.
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The simplest kind of a transposon, consisting of inserted repeats of DNA flanking a gene for transposase, the enzyme that catalyzes transposition.
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mutases Enzymes that catalyze the transposition of functional groups. mutation An inheritable change in the nucleotide sequence of a gene. myofibril A unit of thick and thin filaments of muscle fibers.
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Transposition. The movement of a DNA segment within the genome of an organism. Transposon (transposable, or movable genetic element). A relatively small DNA segment that has the ability to move from one chromosomal position to another.
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