All species have 750-base to 5000-base sequences that code for enzymes {transposase} that recognize DNA sites just beyond both transposase-gene ends.
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Sites have 10-base to 40-base inverted repeats. Transposase enzymes recognize inverted repeats and cut out transposase-gene sequence between sites. Transposases recognize inverted repeat at other locations in genomes, plasmids, or phages and cut sequence to place transposase-gene sequence in those locations. If two transposons are near each other, transposases can cut at the farthest ends and both transposons, and any DNA between them {complex transposon}, can transpose as one sequence to inverted repeats at other locations.
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