Term: transposon: 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)
Candidate hypernym: deoxyribonucleic acid: (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 → 1
Candidate hypernym: crank: a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle → 0
Candidate hypernym: non-euclidean geometry: (mathematics) geometry based on axioms different from Euclid's → 0
Candidate hypernym: commercialization: the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce → 0
Candidate hypernym: pseudepigrapha: 52 texts written between 200 BC and AD 200 but ascribed to various prophets and kings in the Hebrew scriptures; many are apocalyptic in nature → 0
Candidate hypernym: luminescence: light from nonthermal sources → 0
Candidate hypernym: khedive: one of the Turkish viceroys who ruled Egypt between 1867 and 1914 → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus psittacosaurus: most primitive genus of horned dinosaurs; early Cretaceous → 0
Candidate hypernym: zostera: (or in some classifications family Zosteraceae) small genus of widely distributed marine plants → 0
Candidate hypernym: trichodesmium: large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation → 0
Candidate hypernym: articulator: a movable speech organ → 0