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transposable

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transposable /trans·pos·a·ble/ (trans-poz´ah-b'l) capable of being interchanged or put in a different place or order.


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Lynch's group examined the genomes of seven mammals, eight non-mammalian animals and three plants, specifically with regard for the long terminal repeat (LTR) sequences of transposable elements, a curious sort of "jumping" genetic sequence initially dropped into genomes by viruses.
Such counter-places stimulate the imagination but they are all different, socioculturally specific, and therefore, I believe, not transposable.
In other words, crucial aspects of the content may be transposable but the context as such is not entirely available to us, thus turning the translated text into a counterfeit when applied to different context.
 
 
 
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