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Summary Of: Transposon

cuts out the transposon and ligates it into the target site... which are important for the transposon excision by transposase... is observed in which transposon replicates itself to a new target site... Both classes of transposon may lose their ability to synthesise reverse transcriptase or transposase through mutation... A transposon or a retroposon that inserts itself into a functional gene will most likely disable that... After a transposon leaves a gene... Since excessive transposon activity can destroy a genome... The first transposon was discovered in the plant... the first transposon to be molecularly isolated was from a plant... a transposon jumps into a gene and produces a mutation... The presence of the transposon provides a straightforward means of identifying the mutant allele... Sometimes the insertion of a transposon into a gene can disrupt that gene... mediated excision of the transposon restores gene function...

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