(genetics) A mobile genetic entity, such as a transposon.
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- transposon (Science)
- Barbara McClintock (American geneticist)
- Craig Cameron Mello (American geneticist)
- Niels Kaj Jerne (Danish immunologist)
- Maize
- Year 1950 (in Science & Technology)
- Mutagenesis
- Repetitive DNA Elements
- Transposable Genetic Elements
- Transposon Mutagenesis
- evolution: neo-Darwinian theory
- 1951 (chronology)
- Rafting event
- Retrotransposon marker
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