transposon

1. 1.

   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)

   Synonymsjumping gene

   Broaderdeoxyribonucleic acid

Other forms of transposon

plural

transposons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about transposon

What does transposon mean?

transposon means "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 many syllables are in transposon?

transposon has 3 syllables: tran-spo-son. The stress falls on "tran".

What is another word for transposon?

Close synonyms include jumping gene. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transposon a common word?

transposon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.