English Explanatory Dictionary

mobile genetic element

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of genetic material, found in all organisms, that can move around within a genome, or be transferred from one species or replicon to another.

Word forms

mobile genetic element mobile genetic elements

Synonyms

MGE
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