See Also: transposon(medicine)
transposon(dictionary)
composite transposon(medicine)
transposon mutagenesis(medicine)

transposon (iou)



transposon noun. L20.
[from TRANSPOS(ITION + -ON.]
Genetics. A chromosomal segment that can undergo transposition; spec. a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated en bloc between chromosomal, phage, and plasmid DNA in the absence of a complementary sequence in the host DNA.