See Also: cassette(dictionary)
cassette(dictionary)
Cassette(health)
cassette(medicine)
video cassette(dictionary)
cassette mechanism(medicine)
cassette mutagenesis(medicine)
cassette player(dictionary)
cassette recorder(dictionary)
video cassette recorder(dictionary)

Cassette (health)


A pre-existing structure into which an insert can be moved. In molecular biology, a gene conversion process in which the old gene is replaced with a copy of a silent gene and the new copy becomes active. As the process involves replacing one ready made construct with another in an active slot, it is termed a cassette mechanism.