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the jumping genes are called cistrons mutons transposons recons

the jumping genes are called
  1. cistrons
  2. mutons
  3. transposons
  4. recons

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Apoorva Arora IIT Roorkee
askIITians Faculty 181 Points
9 years ago
Atransposable element(TE,transposonorretrotransposon) is aDNA sequencethat can change its position within thegenome, sometimes creating or reversingmutationsand altering the cell'sgenome size. Transposition often results in duplication of the TE.Barbara McClintock 's discovery of thesejumping genesearned her aNobel Prizein 1983.
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Apoorva Arora
IIT Roorkee
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