life lessons from transposable elements

Sep 30, 2008 17:03

transposable elements are (often) autonomous elements in a host genome. these jumping genes generally code for only a couple of proteins necessary for their transposition and/or replication within the host genome. these "selfish" genes exist to propagate their existence.

for a transposon to survive and be successful it needs to survive, it needs to ( Read more... )

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harley322 October 4 2008, 17:29:06 UTC
Wow. You write things like this, and I've compared myself to ice cream before. LOL. That's awesome. ;)

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