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Transposons First discovered in plants. Transposition to a new site Transposons *Three classes of transposons Class I : Retrotransposons Class II: Transposons.

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1 Transposons First discovered in plants

2 Transposition to a new site Transposons *Three classes of transposons Class I : Retrotransposons Class II: Transposons Class III: Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements *Transposons can be autonomous or nonautonomous

3 Transposons Transposase

4 Cut and paste mechanism of transposition (nonreplicative) Transposons

5 Mechanism of replicative transposition

6 Transposons Mechanism of replicative transposition

7 Transposons Mechanism of retrotransposon integration

8 Transposons Littering the human genome

9 Transposons Böhne, et al. 2008


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