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Fragment vs Retroposon - What's the difference?

fragment | retroposon |

As nouns the difference between fragment and retroposon

is that fragment is a part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing while retroposon is (genetics) a fragment of dna inserted into a chromosome following reverse transcription from rna.

As a verb fragment

is to break apart.

fragment

English

(wikipedia fragment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
  • (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate.
  • (computing)

    • Related terms

    * fragmental

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break apart.
  • To cause to be broken into pieces.

    • Synonyms

    * fragmentize

    Derived terms

    * fragmentation

    External links

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    retroposon

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia retroposon) (en noun)
  • (genetics) A fragment of DNA inserted into a chromosome following reverse transcription from RNA

    • Anagrams

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