BIOL308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ribose, Rifampicin, Prentice Hall
4 Feb 2015
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Simplest type of transposable element found in bacterial. Encode only protein(s) for mobilization and insertion (host. Transposon size from 768 bp to 5 kb. Ends of all known is elements show inverted terminal repeats replication machinery used for replication). genomes and plasmids (itrs or irs). Nobel prize in physiology and medicine 1983 (cid:2)for her discovery of mobile genetic elements(cid:3: studied transposable elements in corn (zea mays, at that time people did not believe in existence of. Transposon effects on corn kernel color: spotting in the maize kernels: multiple reversions of an unstable mutation in the c locus (which is responsible for purple kernel color, mutation and its reversion done by. Transposes out again; color reverted to wild type (purple: ds cannot transpose by itself non- autonomous transposon, must have help from an autonomous transposon, ac (for activator) Ds is an ac element with most of its middle removed.
