cut-and-paste transposition
cut-and-paste transposition
[¦kət ən ¦pāst ‚tranz·pə′zish·en] (cell and molecular biology)
A form of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) transposition in which the transposed segment is cut from the donor DNA and inserted in the receptor DNA location.
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