transposable
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Using these genomic comparisons, the scientists reconstructed how transposable elements evolved and changed in activity over the past 100 million years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 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
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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