which Several Mechanisms Limit TransposableElement Movement

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The jumping genes are the other name of transposable elements. These moves from one location to another. The geneticist Barbara McClintock identified them. There are various kinds of transposons that are DNA transposons, retrotransposons, autonomous and non-autonomous transposons.

 

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