insertion sequence
n.
Any of several discrete DNA sequences that repeat at various sites on a bacterial chromosome, on certain plasmids, and on bacteriophages and that can move from one site to another on the chromosome, to another plasmid in the same bacterium, or to a bacteriophage.
Words nearby insertion sequence
inseparable,
insert,
inserted,
insertion,
insertion element,
insertion sequence,
insertional mutagenesis,
insessorial,
inset,
inset initial,
inseverable