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n. A segment of DNA that is capable of independently replicating itself and inserting the copy into a new position within the same or another chromosome or plasmid.

n. a segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome

n. a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)

"So the thing which you think is most unlikely, the sudden incorporation of the transposon from a bacterium, right into the right spot in the right receptor in some early fish genome, didn't have to happen all in one step, indeed we now have evidence that it did not."

desoxyribonucleic acid    DNA    deoxyribonucleic acid   

retrotransposon   

site-directed    site-specific    reticular       on-time