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11. what are transposons and who discovered them?

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    a chromosomal segment that can undergo transposition, especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole between chromosomal, phage, and plasmid DNA in the absence of a complementary sequence in the host DNA. Transposons were first discovered in corn (maize) during the 1940s and '50s by American scientist Barbara McClintock
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