Usually means: Mobile genetic elements, replicate RNA.
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  1. retrotransposon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. retrotransposon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. retrotransposon: Wordnik
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  1. retrotransposon: Encyclopedia

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  1. retrotransposon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. retrotransposon: Medical dictionary

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

Similar:
retroelement, transposon, retroposon, retrotransposition, retroposition, retrogene, transduplication, jumping gene, retrotranslocon, retroplasmid, more...

Opposite:
protransposon, orthotransposon

Phrases:
LTR retrotransposon, more...

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Similar:
retroelement, transposon, retroposon, retrotransposition, retroposition, retrogene, transduplication, jumping gene, retrotranslocon, retroplasmid, more...

Opposite:
protransposon, orthotransposon

Phrases:
LTR retrotransposon, more...



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