mobile genetic element
Genetics
noun
A transposon.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Science.
- straight shooter
- straight-shooting
- straight-six
- straight stitch
- straight-talking
- straight-thinking
- straight time
- straight up
- straightway
- strain
- strainable
- strain at the leash
- strained
- strain energy
- strainer
- strain every nerve
- strain gauge
- strait
- straiten
- straitened
- straitjacket
- strait-laced
- straitly
- straitness
- straits