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transposon(medicine)
composite transposon(medicine)
transposon mutagenesis(medicine)
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transposon mutagenesis (medicine) and sex 1, noun (oh)


transposon mutagenesis (medicine)


transposon mutagenesis
<molecular biology> Insertion of a transposon into a gene, this inactivates the host gene leading to a mutant phenotype and also confers the phenotype associated with the transposon gene.


sex 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: sexus]
[U] the physical activity that two people do together in order to produce babies, or for pleasure
::All you see on TV is sex and violence these days.
::They had sex in the back seat of his car.
::She no longer wanted to have sex with him.
premarital sex/sex before Marriage
(=sex happening before Marriage)
::the dangers of casual sex (=having sex with someone without intending to have a serious relationship)
safe sex
(=ways of having sex that reduce the spread of sexual diseases)
unprotected sex
(=sex without a condom )
[U] whether a person, plant, or animal is male or female
::Put your name, and sex at the top of the form.
[C] all men, considered as a group, or all women, considered as a group
::He found it difficult to talk to members of the opposite sex (=people that were not his own sex) .
::People of both sexes (=both men and women) buy her records.
single-sex school/college etc
BrE a school etc for either males or females, but not for both together