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Meaning of "transposon" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRANSPOSON

From transpos(e) + -on.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF TRANSPOSON

trænsˈpəʊzɒn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRANSPOSON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Transposon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRANSPOSON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Transposable element

A transposable element is a DNA sequence that can change its position within the genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genome size. Transposition often results in duplication of the TE. Barbara McClintock's discovery of these jumping genes earned her a Nobel prize in 1983. TEs make up a large fraction of the C-value of eukaryotic cells. They are generally considered non-coding DNA, although it has been unambiguously shown that TEs are important in genome function and evolution. In Oxytricha, which has a unique genetic system, they play a critical role in development. They are also very useful to researchers as a means to alter DNA inside a living organism.

Definition of transposon in the English dictionary

The definition of transposon in the dictionary is a genetic element that can move from one site in a chromosome to another site in the same or a different chromosome and thus alter the genetic constitution of the organism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRANSPOSON

Apiezon · blouson · borazon · boson · cabezon · gohonzon · liaison · Luzon · menazon · meson · scazon · stramazon

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRANSPOSON

transportable · transportal · transportance · transportation · transportedly · transportedness · transporter · transporter bridge · transportingly · transportive · transposability · transposable · transposal · transpose · transposer · transposing instrument · transposition · transpositional · transpositive · transputer

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRANSPOSON

Anderson · comparison · gauge boson · Higgs boson · Hudson · in season · intermediate vector boson · Jackson · Jason · Johnson · madison · nelson · person · reason · season · son · Thompson · W boson · Wilson · Z boson

Synonyms and antonyms of transposon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «transposon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRANSPOSON

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The translations of transposon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «transposon» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

转座子
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

transposón
570 millions of speakers
en

English

transposon
510 millions of speakers
hi

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transposon
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ينقول
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

транспозонов
278 millions of speakers
pt

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transposon
270 millions of speakers
bn

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transposon
260 millions of speakers
fr

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transposon
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Transposon
190 millions of speakers
de

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Transposon
180 millions of speakers
ja

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トランスポゾン
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

트랜스포존
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Transposon
85 millions of speakers
vi

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transposon
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

டி.என்.ஏ
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ट्रान्स्पोसोन
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

transpozonunu
70 millions of speakers
it

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trasposone
65 millions of speakers
pl

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transpozonową
50 millions of speakers
uk

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транспозонов
40 millions of speakers
ro

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transposon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεταθετόνιο
15 millions of speakers
af

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transposon
14 millions of speakers
sv

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transposon
10 millions of speakers
no

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transposon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of transposon

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRANSPOSON»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of transposon
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about transposon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSPOSON»

Discover the use of transposon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to transposon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pre-clinical Evaluation of the Sleeping Beauty Transposon ...
Modifications of the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System Transposon Terminal Sequences. The inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) located at the ends of the transposon define the borders. Compared to other members of the Tc1 /mariner ...
Andrew Christopher Wilber, 2006
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Characterization of the Integrase of the Bacteroides ...
A functional origin of transfer (oriT) on the conjugative transposon Tn916. J Bacteriol. 177(22): p. 6644-51. 102. Lu, F. and G. Churchward. 1994. Conjugative transposition: Tn916 integrase contains two independent DNA binding domains that ...
Lara Rajeev, 2007
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Sequencing and Distribution Analysis of Dissociation ...
Class II transposons are DNA-based transposons that typically transfer by conservative transposition, or “cut-and-paste”, where the transposon is excised and moves to a new location. Transposase recognizes the terminal inverted repeats ...
Justin Andrew Schares, 2007
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Transgenic Plant Research
The introduction of transposons into heterologous hosts by transformation and creation of transgenic transposon lines offers a myriad of novel applications. Endogenous transposons in maize and snapdragon are used for transposon tagging ...
Alan R. Lindsey, 1998
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Characterization of the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System ...
Transposon. System. Structure and Function The Sleeping Beauty Transposon system was engineered by aligning numerous non-functional Tc1-like sequences recovered from the genomes of salmonid fish, creating a consensus sequence ...
Paul Rodrick Score, 2008
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Molecular Methods in Plant Pathology
George H. Lacy and Verlyn K. Stromberg TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 151 II. Principles 152 A. Transposon Mutagenesis 152 B. Marker Exchange Mutagenesis 153 C. Other Uses for Transposons 153 1. Gene Regulation 153 2.
U. S. Singh, Rudra P. Singh, 1995
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Advanced Bacterial Genetics: Use of Transposons and Phage ...
When a custom‐designed, whole‐genome oligonucleotide microarray was implemented, each insertion in the library could easily be detected, suggesting that using whole‐genome microarrays for tracking transposon insertion mutants was ...
‎2007
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Transposon Exaptation in Mammalian Evolution
Together, our analyses support the notion that this complementary nature of transposon exaptation, the host recruitment of transposase as DNA-binding protein and non-coding transposon sequence as binding site, has been a recurrent theme in ...
Donald Hucks, 2008
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Molecular Genetic Approaches to Maize Improvement
The instability of many transposon-induced alleles is due to excision events or epigenetic regulation of the transposons. The structures, mechanisms of transposition, and epigenetic regulation of Ac/Ds, En/Spm, and Mu are discussed in ...
Alan L. Kriz, Brian A. Larkins, 2008
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Repair of Endonuclease- and Transposon-induced DNA Double ...
joining and repair of transposon-induced DNA hairpins by host factors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol 24(3): 1351-64 Zhu J, Petersen S, Tessarollo L, Nussenzweig A (2001) Targeted disruption of the Nijmegen breakage ...
Zhuying Li, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSPOSON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term transposon is used in the context of the following news items.
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Transposon mutagenesis disentangles osteosarcoma genetic drivers
A new study uses Sleeping Beauty transposon mutagenesis to drive osteosarcomagenesis in the mouse and identify likely drivers of the disease in humans. «Nature.com, May 15»
2
Improved transposon-based library preparation for the Ion Torrent …
A transposon-based approach for the construction of sequencing libraries is an efficient way of preparing samples for processing on both Illumina and Ion ... «BioTechniques.com, Apr 15»
3
How Transposons Shaped Pregnancy
FLICKR, TATIANA VDBDuring the evolution of pregnancy, thousands of transposons—pieces of DNA that copy and reinsert themselves throughout the ... «Scientist, Jan 15»
4
A Movable Defense
In the evolutionary arms race between pathogens and hosts, genetic elements known as transposons are regularly recruited as assault weapons for cellular ... «Scientist, Jan 15»
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PIWI Pathway Isn't Perfect But It's What Keeps Transposons From …
Our reproductive cells, called germ cells, are particularly sensitive to transposons, so they rely on a system called the PIWI pathway to keep the transposons in ... «Science 2.0, Nov 14»
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DNA's Wild West: Bounty hunters and outlaws vie for control of your …
Fifty percent of our genome is comprised of genetic parasites, called transposable elements or transposons, that usually lie dormant. When they are allowed to ... «Brandeis University, Nov 14»
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Yale Team Proposes Transposon Role in Evolution of Mammalian …
A subset of the differentially expressed sequences fell near sequences for MER20 transposons, a type of transposable element found exclusively in eutherian ... «In Sequence, Nov 14»
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Barcoding tool for stem cells: New technology that tracks the origin …
A transposon is a piece of genetic code that can jump to a random point in DNA when exposed to an enzyme called transposase. Camargo's approach works ... «Phys.Org, Oct 14»
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The Dynamic Genome: An Arms Race With Ourselves
For millions of years, mobile pieces of DNA called transposons have been hopping around organisms' genomes, copying and reinserting themselves at will. «Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Oct 14»
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CRISPR Corrects Blood Disorder Gene
Kan's team combined CRISPR/Cas9 with a transposon called piggyBac, which allowed the group to insert a marker of homologous recombination. “After we ... «Scientist, Aug 14»
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