transposon
NOUN
10 LETTERS · STARTS WITH T
transposon is a valid 10-letter word worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
T1R1A1N1S1P3O1S1O1N1
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =12 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 24TRIPLE WORD → 36
MEANING
What does transposon mean?
NOUN · 1 SENSE
1
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).
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