Sleeping beauty has now been declared molecule of the year 2009 by ISMCBBPR.
International Society for Molecular and Cell Biology and Biotechnology Protocols and Researchers announces sleeping beauty a transposon, 15 molecules were selected for this purpose.
Transposons are sequences of DNA that can move around within genome of a single cell and replicate themselves so they act as molecular parasites in the cell.
Transposons were once called as jumping gene because of their moblity within genome.These molecules can also cause mutation.
Sleeping beauty was the name given to these because they have been awakened after a long evolutionary sleep.
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