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trans·po·si·tion

n :  an act, process, or instance of transposing or being transposed: as  a  :  the displacement of a viscus to a side opposite from that which it normally occupies < of the heart>   b  :  the transfer of a segment of DNA from one site to another in the genome either between chromosomal sites or between an extrachromosomal site (as on a plasmid) and a chromosome trans*po*si*tion*al adj 
 
 

 
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