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Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides > Nucleic Acids > DNA > DNA Transposable Elements
... > Genetic Phenomena > Genetic Structures > Genome > Genome Components > Interspersed Repetitive Sequences > DNA Transposable Elements
... > Genetic Phenomena > Genetic Structures > Base Sequence > Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid > Interspersed Repetitive Sequences > DNA Transposable Elements
... > Chemical Phenomena > Biochemical Phenomena > Molecular Structure > Base Sequence > Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid > Interspersed Repetitive Sequences > DNA Transposable Elements
... > Information Science > Information Services > Documentation > Molecular Sequence Data > Base Sequence > Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid > Interspersed Repetitive Sequences > DNA Transposable Elements

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DNA Transposable Elements  

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  • Discrete segments of DNA which can excise and reintegrate to another site in the genome. Most are inactive, i.e., have not been found to exist outside the integrated state. DNA transposable elements include bacterial IS (insertion sequence) elements, Tn elements, the maize controlling elements Ac and Ds, Drosophila P, gypsy, and pogo elements, the human Tigger elements and the Tc and mariner elements which are found throughout the animal kingdom.

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  • Transposable Elements

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