Retrotransposon Definition

rĕtrō-trăns-pōzŏn
noun
A transposon copied from RNA with the use of reverse transcriptase.
American Heritage Medicine

(genetics) A transposable fragment of a genome that can undergo retrotransposition.

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Noun

Singular:
retrotransposon
Plural:
retrotransposons

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