transposable
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- adjective
- /trænˈspoʊzəbl/
- Specialized
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transponible
- One possible explanation is that transposable elements make the genome physically big, which is sometimes a good thing.
- transposable elements
Examples
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Some of today's transposable elements might have once been free-ranging viruses, and some contemporary viruses may have had transposable elements as ancestors.
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Genes can evolve only if they first mutate, and transposable elements create a significant fraction of a genome's mutations.
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Most of the transposable elements in the human genome, it now seems, are already dead or about to give up the ghost.
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Your genome is Half of your genome consists of transposable elements.
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McClintock's discovery of transposable elements was based on her work with genetics.
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So while transposable elements may indeed be genetic parasites, they may end up helping their hosts.
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Thanks to this transposable element, our immune cells can quickly generate millions of different-shaped proteins.
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Researchers call such self-replicating pieces of junk DNA "transposable elements" because of the way they transpose copies of themselves into new places in the genome.
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In certain species, the proportions are even more staggering: 99 percent of the lily genome consists of transposable elements.
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Many genetic researchers study the role of transposable elements in DNA to understand evolution.
Synonyms
Able to be moved into a different order
How Movable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Transposable comes from the parts trans- ('across') and pose ('to place'), seen in familiar words like transport and position. So something transposable is 'able to be moved across places' or 'rearranged', which is why we call genes, tables, or melodies transposable when they can change position.