transposable
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"This work demonstrates how transposable elements can function as evolutionary time stamps embedded in plant genomes," said one of the study's senior authors.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
“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
Dr. Wei studies transposable elements, often called “selfish” or jumping genes for their abilities to make copies of themselves and insert them back into the genome.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 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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