transposable
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The results also showed that "jumping genes" -- transposable elements -- played a major role in creating new genetic variation for selection to act upon.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2024
The C-Fern appears to have gained its large genome primarily from repetitive DNA and transposable elements — “jumping genes” that often move around in chromosomes, with a function that is poorly understood.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
Alu sequences can move around the genome and are sometimes called jumping genes or transposable elements.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2021
Some 44 percent of human genes are transposable elements—“jumping genes” that can change position in a genome.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2020
Deduction succeeds in things moral only metaphorically, so to speak, and just in the measure in which the moral is transposable into the physical, I should say translatable into spatial symbols.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
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