How to Use transposon in a Sentence

transposon

noun

• But transposons are increasingly understood to be a key feature of many genetic tool kits.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• These unruly genetic fragments are known as transposable elements, or transposons for short.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• In this case, a transposon created a new trait that was immediately selected for.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• Sometimes, instead of changing an existing gene, a transposon in a new context can be co-opted over time to generate something new.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• By hitchhiking on a passing virus, transposons can defy species boundaries and land in a totally new evolutionary setting.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• The disruptive nature of transposons may have required organisms to evolve new methods of shutting off their activity.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• For instance, a transposon fused in the right location can, by chance, create a novel protein that goes on to regulate other genes spread throughout the genome.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• Since then, researchers have uncovered transposons in organisms across the tree of life and described a whole taxonomy of subtypes that cluster into two main groups.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• That means that a transposon is partly responsible for the months-long process of development in utero that’s typical for our lineage, humans included.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• The same features that allow DNA transposons and retrotransposons to move within a genome also predispose them to moving between genomes.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• Even when the effects are more subtle, the relationship between genome and transposon seems to sometimes go deeper than that of a host adapting to an invading, self-interested genetic force.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• Epigenetic control — the means by which an organism can dial the expression of its genetic repertoire up or down, or shut off the expression of some genes entirely — may have evolved first to bring transposons to heel.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• The domestication of transposons for new purposes has also been implicated in the evolution of the placenta — a defining feature of nearly all mammals.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
• Now, the emerging understanding that transposons are intimately interwoven within the regulatory workings of the host genome is rehabilitating their reputation as critical sources of evolutionary innovation.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026