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		Definition of jumping gene in English: jumping genenoun informal another term for transposon  Example sentencesExamples -  Next, they scanned the genomes of these microbes for jumping genes.
 -  Another, more speculative hypothesis is that perhaps fungi, which live within the roots of many distantly related plants, served as a conduit for the jumping genes.
 -  Eventually he worked out the source of that extra DNA: It was a transposon, also known as a jumping gene.
 -  If someone develops some ideal dairy cow and wants to clone it he does not want jumping genes creating variations that cause some of them clones to produce less milk.
 -  In 1997, in another study, University of Minnesota researchers took defunct, non-functioning jumping genes from fish and made the genes jump again.
 
    Definition of jumping gene in US English: jumping genenounˈjəmpiNG ˌjēn informal another term for transposon  Example sentencesExamples -  Next, they scanned the genomes of these microbes for jumping genes.
 -  In 1997, in another study, University of Minnesota researchers took defunct, non-functioning jumping genes from fish and made the genes jump again.
 -  If someone develops some ideal dairy cow and wants to clone it he does not want jumping genes creating variations that cause some of them clones to produce less milk.
 -  Another, more speculative hypothesis is that perhaps fungi, which live within the roots of many distantly related plants, served as a conduit for the jumping genes.
 -  Eventually he worked out the source of that extra DNA: It was a transposon, also known as a jumping gene.
 
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