transposons

Meaning of transposons

plural noun

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.

1970s: from transposition + -on.

Information about transposons

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of transposons is: transposon.
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Hyphenation of transposons

trans-posons

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
  • transposons is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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