transposable
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Those tests confirmed that the method is sensitive to both divergence times and the abundance of transposable elements.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
“We’re starting to think about the genome as an ecological community and the transposable elements as species,” Mueller says.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 2, 2022
Alu sequences can move around the genome and are sometimes called jumping genes or transposable elements.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 21, 2021
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 Mitchell, Arthur
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