Summary: 1
CLASS 3.3: 03/22/07
TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS
A. Prokaryotic Transposons:
- Are
- Can move
- Transposition provides
- Are found
- Transposon carries
- Can be lots of
·
· Often they
1. Types of bacterial transposons
a. Insertion sequences
- Simplest
- Found
- E. coli likely to contain
- Are autonomous units =
- Composition of IS elements:
i. Inverted

Source: Andres, Andrew - School of Life Sciences, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Collections: Biology and Medicine