mobile genetic element
Genetics
noun
A transposon.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Science.
- upon
- up one's sleeve
- up one's street (or alley)
- upon my soul!
- up (or out) the wazoo
- up (or raise) the ante
- upper
- Upper Austria
- Upper Canada
- upper case
- upper chamber
- upper circle
- upper class
- upperclassman
- upper-classness
- uppercut
- Upper Darby
- upper house
- upper-level
- upper middle class
- uppermost
- Upper Peninsula
- upper regions
- upper school
- Upper Volta