Associations to the word «Transposon»

Wiktionary

TRANSPOSON, noun. (genetics) a segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome

Dictionary definition

TRANSPOSON, noun. 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).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky