Definition of "transposable" [trans•pos•a•ble]

• Able to be transposed (in any sense) (adjective)

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• "In fact, most junk DNA or better “repetitive DNA” is comprised of so-called transposable elements. these are small genetic units that encode all genes necessary to make copies of themselves."
• "This technique was crucial in a study to be published in the latest issue of the journal Cell, which describes how mobile sequences of DNA (called transposable elements) are silenced in the sperm cells, thus ensuring suppression of the mutagenic effects of these DNA elements."
• "Instead of relying on viruses to introduce Klf4 into the Epi-stem cells, they turned to a special type of DNA, called a transposable element, which can insert itself into an organism's DNA and carry a cargo with it, in this case Klf4."