Transposable Elements in Different Plants | Biology

In this article we will discuss about the transposable elements in maize, peas and drosophila plants. Transposable Elements in Maize Plants: Several families of trans­posons were identified in corn. In each fami­ly there exist two forms of transposon: (i) Autonomous elements that can transpose by themselves and (ii) Non-autonomous elements that cannot transpose by themselves because of lacking the gene [...]