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"text": "2002, Ahmet Ipek, Introduction of an Ac/Ds Based Two-element Transposon Tagging System and Trans-activation of Ds in Carrot (Daucus Carota L.), University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 44,\nTransposon tagging is a powerful technique to identify and clone genes. The successful application of transposon tagging requires previous identification and cloning of a transposon in the species under consideration."
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"ref": "2018 March 26, Nicola Davis, “The human microbiome: why our microbes could be key to our health”, in The Guardian",
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"(genetics) A segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to the genome of another species."
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"sense": "segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to another genome",
"word": "轉座子"
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},
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"word": "transposable element"
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"sense": "segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to another genome",
"word": "轉座子"
},
{
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"sense": "segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to another genome",
"word": "转座子"
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"sense": "segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to another genome",
"tags": [
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"word": "Transposon"
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"tags": [
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"sense": "segment of DNA that can move to a different position within a genome, or to another genome",
"tags": [
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"word": "trasposone"
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