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Keywords: Cassettes, Transposons, Gene, Plasmids, Dna

Related Terms: Plasmid, Promoter, Bac, Recombinant Dna Technology, Sequencer, Genomic Dna, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Pseudogene, Southern Blot, Homeobox, Homeotic Gene, Transfection, Yeast Artificial Chromosome, Marker Gene, Molecular Marker, Homologous Recombination, Cloning Vector, Expressed Sequence Tag, Est, Expression Vector, Transposon, Rflp, Transgene, Recombinant Dna, Bacterial Artificial Chromosome, Amplification, Exons, Rdna, Gene Splicing, Gene Cloning, Plasmids, Insertion, Operator, Transposase, Cosmid, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, Klenow Fragment, Replicon, Restriction Fragment, Gene Targeting, Episome, Origin Of Replication, Transgenesis, Repetitive Dna, Yac , Rapd, Markers, Construct , Okazaki Fragment, Pseudogenes

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DNA fragments that serve as sites for insertion of a variety of other DNA fragments (especially antibiotic resistance genes) and facilitate their transfer into other cells.

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a DNA sequence which makes it possible for several resistance genes from various sources to be linked together in the same DNA segment

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a gene capture system found in some bacteria

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a genetic element that allows integration of gene cassettes

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