NOUN
- a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole)
How To Use jumping gene In A Sentence
- To me however, the most interesting components of junk DNA are the mobile genetic elements, also called jumping genes or transposons.
- She spent the next three years checking and double-checking her results before she revealed to her colleagues the existence of these ‘jumping genes’.
- His nonviral method uses a jumping gene, called a transposon, to insert therapeutic genes into target cells. Starbulletin Headlines
