JUMPING GENE FOSSILS. “Evolution often deactivates DNA transposons, leaving them as introns (inactive gene sequences). In vertebrate animal cells, nearly all 100,000+ DNA transposons per genome have genes that encode inactive transposase polypeptides. In humans, all Tc1-like transposons are inactive.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposable_element
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022