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
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