Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun jumping_gene

1 sense of jumping gene

Sense 1
transposon, jumping gene -- (a segment of DNA that can become integrated at many different sites along a chromosome (especially a segment of bacterial DNA that can be translocated as a whole))
       => deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid, DNA -- ((biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information; "DNA is the king of molecules")