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Retroposon

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retropositionnoun(anatomy) backward displacement of a body part
retrogenenoun(genetics) A piece of DNA reverse transcribed from mRNA inserted into a random place in the genome.
retrotransposonnoun(genetics) A transposable fragment of a genome that can undergo retrotransposition.
retroelementnoun(genetics) A retrotransposon.
retronnoun(biochemistry) A sequence of DNA associated with reverse transcription
retrotranspositionnoun(genetics) The reverse transposition of an RNA intermediate.
retrosequencenoun(genetics) A sequence of DNA produced by reverse transcription
retroplasmidnoun(genetics) Any plasmid that replicates via reverse transcription
retropseudogenenoun(genetics) A decayed retrocopy.
retrotranscriptionnoun(genetics) Synonym of reverse transcription.
retroduplicationnoun(genetics) The reverse transcription of a gene from mRNA into a complementary DNA copy
retrocopynoun(genetics) A retrogene, copied from mRNA, that has lost all introns
reverse transcriptionnoun(genetics) The process of creating double-stranded DNA from a single-stranded RNA template (the reverse of the standard process).
retrotranslocationnoun(biochemistry) The reverse process of translocation.
transposonnoun(genetics) A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species.
retrotranscriptomenoun(genetics) A complete set of retrotranscripts
retransformantnoun(biology) a cell into which foreign DNA has been reintroduced
transrepressornoun(genetics) A transfected genetic repressor.
retrotranscriptnounretrotranscription
retrohomingnoun(genetics) The reintegration of an intron into DNA

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